Resilience Quotes

"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 human capacity for burden is like bamboo—far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance."

- Jodi Picoult

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

- 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

"It’s not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

- Charles Darwin

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

- Robert Jordan

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

- Margaret Thatcher

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

- Elizabeth Edwards

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

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

- Gever Tulley

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

- J.K. Rowling

"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

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure."

- Henry Kissinger

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

- Helen Keller

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"Resilience is the ability to attack while running away."

- Wes Fesler

"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it."

- Horace

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

- Maya Angelou

"The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us but those who win battles we know nothing about."

- Unknown

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Jamais Cascio

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

- James A. Michener

"Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t."

- Rikki Rogers

"Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility."

- Unknown

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

- Robert H. Schuller

"A bend in the road is not the end of the road… unless you fail to make the turn."

- Helen Keller

"If you’re going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

"Resilience is not about overcoming, but becoming."

- Sherri Mandell

"Out of difficulties grow miracles."

- Jean de La Bruyère

"Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness."

- Susan Gale

"Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths."

- Drew Barrymore

"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."

- Christopher Reeve

"Resilience is built from deep compassion."

- Unknown

"Resilience is the ability to find the silver lining in every storm."

- Unknown

"Resilience is turning despair into hope."

- Unknown