Sheryl Sandberg Quotes

It's amazing to me that we live in such a wonderful country where anyone can have a problem in life and get up, dust themselves off and start all over again.

If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid.'

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I've picked myself up and gone on.

Survival is nothing more than recovery.

There is one good thing about reaching the bottom. When you get there, there's nothing left to do but fight your way back up or die.

I just want people to know that they can make it through hard times like I did.

I am here today as an example to all that have gone through a personal hell or are going through it right now, whatever that hell might be for you, that you can become whole again. In fact, you can become stronger than you ever thought possible.

I just like to write stories about people who survive even very difficult, impossible things.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

Survival is triumph enough.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

We've all fallen, but at the same time we're not broken. There is the hint that we are going to get up again.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

These past years, as we have been recovering and given our city a rebirth, we have been encouraged by our faith, knowledge, and steadfast belief that we will pull through. There will be challenges and setbacks, as there have already been, but we will continue, and we the citizens of New Orleans will prevail in bringing our city back.

No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.