72+ Best Resilience Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Resilience is the ability to be happy, successful, etc. again after something difficult or bad has happened. Inspirational resilience quotes will challenge the way you think, and make your life worth living.

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Famous Resilience Quotes

Everyone has the ability to increase resilience to stress. It requires hard work and dedication, but over time, you can equip yourself to handle whatever life throws your way without adverse effects on your health. Training your brain to manage stress won’t just affect the quality of your life, but perhaps even the length of it. Amy Morin

Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up. Mary Holloway

Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving; we get stronger and more resilient. Steve Maraboli

The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat. Woodrow Wilson

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. Kahlil Gibran

Proactively working to develop mental strength increases your resilience to stress and reduces the toll it takes on you both physically and mentally. Amy Morin

My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to mind something else, too. They remind me that the damage life has inflicted on me has, in many places, left me stronger and more resilient. What hurt me in the past has actually made me better equipped to face the present. Steve Goodier

Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems. Gever Tulley

The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat. Woodrow Wilson

Resilience isn’t a single skill. It’s a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive. Jean Chatzky

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that’s good. Elizabeth Edwards

She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails. Elizabeth Edwards

If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces. Shane Koyczan

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Charles Darwin

She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails. Elizabeth Edwards

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying ‘I will try again tomorrow. Mary Anne Radmacher

It’s crazy, how similar we are. Here are both of us, working through our stuff, trying to make something positive out of something really bad. Jenny Han

Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive. Jamais Cascio

It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment. Bram Stoker

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles Alex Karras

I will not be another flower, picked for my beauty and left to die. I will be wild, difficult to find, and impossible to forget. Erin Van Vuren

Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly. Robert F. Kennedy

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived. Robert Jordan

Resilience can go an awful long way. Eddie the Eagle

It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop. Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Napoleon Hill

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo  far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance. Jodi Picoult

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. Anthony Robbins

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. Maya Angelou

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. Helen Keller

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. J.K. Rowling

No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear. Greg Kincaid

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realize that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. Elizabeth Edwards

Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again. Nelson Mandela

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn’t matter. Elizabeth Edwards

No matter how you define success, you will need to be resilient, empowered, authentic, and limber to get there. Joanie Connell

We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice. Stephen Covey

There are two kinds of strength. Power and the ability to wield it is obvious, but resilience, the ability to resist power, is the other. Raymond E. Feist

The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity. Joshua Waitzkin 

Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things  of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires. Sheri L. Dew

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life. Albert Bandura

Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. David Brinkley

You will not have to fight this battle. Take up your positions; stand firm and see the deliverance the Lord will give you, Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Go out to face them tomorrow, and the Lord will be with you. 2 Chronicles 20:17

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Nelson Mandela

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord! Psalm 21:24

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. Conrad Hilton

Stand firm, and you will win life. Luke 21:19

It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setbacks. Bob Richards

We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9

People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Tony Robbins

So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. Isaiah 41:10

If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time. Steve Jobs

Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. 1 Corinthians 16:13

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. Thomas Edison

I am able to do all things through Him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. Colin R. Davis

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. Romans 8:37

There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out. Sophie Kinsella

I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. Romans 8:18

Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient. Steve Maraboli

Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill

Resilience is born by grounding yourself in your own loveliness, hitting notes you thought were way out of your range. Gregory Boyle

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Helen Keller

Resilience is distinct from mere survival, and more than mere endurance. Resilience is often endurance with direction. Eric Greitens

You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute. Tina Fey

All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families. Steven Pressfield

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. Nelson Mandela

You learn to be resilient, to survive when you know you are capable of making worthy contribution to the world; you fight it when you have nothing to lose and so much to gain. Mala Naidoo