90 Best Resilience Quotes to Inspire and Motivate You
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Dive into my curated collection of the ’90 Best Resilience Quotes’.
Find inspiration and motivation in powerful words that celebrate strength, adaptability, and the human spirit.
Whether you need a boost in challenging times or simply to seek wisdom on building resilience, these quotes are here to uplift and empower you.
Explore the transformative power of resilience through the lens of these thought-provoking quotes.
Read more and let your journey to resilience begin.
Respect your pains. They made you wiser.”
Michael Kouly
Strength comes from struggle. When you learn to see your struggles as opportunities to become stronger, better, wiser, then your thinking shifts from “I can’t do this” to “I must do this.”
Toni Sorenson
When life throws you a curveball, embrace the chaos, and turn it into your competitive advantage by shifting your mindset and transforming adversity into opportunity.”
Sope Agbelusi
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
There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who do not. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living.”
José N. Harris
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
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
Spending time alone in your own company reinforces your self-worth and is often the number-one way to replenish your resilience reserves.”
Embracing uncertainty is powerful in two ways: Firstly, it allows you to find acceptance. Secondly, embracing uncertainty broadens the horizon of possibility. Think about it in reverse: if we avoid uncertainty, we constrain the infinite nature of possibility.”
Turning wounds into wisdom, scars into strength. Your journey as a survivor is a source of empowerment for us all. Your courage lights the way for others to find their own resilience. Keep being the incredible soul you are!”
Carlos Wallace
Success and failure come and go, but don’t let them define you. It’s who you are that matters.”
Heroes inevitably experience at least one very big failure that tests whether they have the resilience to come back and fight smarter and with more determination.”
Resilience is learning to fall without falling apart; it is learning how to crash without burning.”
Janet Autherine
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
Carl Jung
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
Margaret Thatcher
Like precious metal in the furnace, hardship tempers us and refines our character, forging us into a stronger and more resilient version of ourselves.”
Shabira Banu Sumbhaniya
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
Life is messy, but the only way is through. Through the quicksand; through the hard lessons; through the distress; through the trauma; through the mess and the clutter.”
Samantha Lourie
When your dream is at stake, be the best friend of persistence and resilience. Nothing can hinder the deepest desire of our souls.”
Daniel Gumiero
Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston Churchill
The biggest lesson I had in my life was failure.”
Tim Rice
What helps you persevere is your resilience and commitment.”
There is lonely, and there is alone time. I have found that both have etched character upon my soul.”
Alfa
I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”
Maya Angelou
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.”
Rita Mae Brown
Just like a ship at sea, our lives can encounter rough waters. But with the right crew, we can weather any storm.”
Jeff Ocaya
There are just two things in the world that give you true confidence. One is overcoming difficulties on your own, and the other is being deeply loved. If you experience both, then you will be confident for the rest of your life.”
Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”
Herman Hesse
There is something you must always remember: You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
A. A. Milne
Building our resilience muscles starts with the way we process the negative events in our lives. Mental toughness is a prerequisite for personal growth and success.”
An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. So when life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means that it’s going to launch you into something great. So just focus, and keep aiming.”
Paulo Coelho
No one pays any attention to your mistakes. They are focused on their own.”
Sahil Lavingia
Every defeat, every heartbreak , every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.”
Og Mandino
Everyone who wins pays a price. You have to give up something to get something.”
Dave Ramsey
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which bridge to burn.”
David Russell
Agility, resilience, readiness, observation, learning, courage, vigilance, curiosity, and team spirit – these are the most critical traits needed to fight the change tornado called evolution.”
Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up.”
Mary Holloway
She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.”
Elizabeth Edwards
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
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
Robert Frost
The real test is whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into action, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.”
Barack Obama
Resilience is born by grounding yourself in your own loveliness, hitting notes you thought were way out of range.”
Gregory Boyle
Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems.”
Gever Tulley
Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I rebuilt my life.”
J. K. Rowlings
Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.”
Alex Karras
Loving ourselves calls us to give up the illusion that we can control everything and focuses us on building our inner resource of resilience.”
Sharon Salzberg
Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.”
Jamais Cascio
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
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
Conrad Hilton
If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time. ”
Steve Jobs
Fall down seven times, stand up eight.”
Japanese Proverb
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.”
David Brinkley
A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.”
Jack Dempsey
Blaming others for how bad things are for you, keeps you in a non-resilient victim state in which you do not take resiliency actions.”
AI Siebert
Success is not just about reaching the destination, but about the journey through the ups and downs. It’s up to us to enjoy the ride.”
Jeff Ocaya
Be allergic to giving up on your dreams.”
Lynn Ujiagbe
Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”
Nelson Mandela
We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.”
Stephen Covey
People are resilient. Correction: survivors are resilient.”
Sam North
Resiliency is the ability to spring back from and successfully adapt to adversity.”
Nan Henderson
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
We all face challenges and disappointments in life, but it’s how we use these experiences to our advantage that matters! Instead of letting them bring us down, let’s take a moment to reflect on what went wrong, learn from our mistakes, and build resilience to help us move forward.”
Felecia Etienne
There will be times in your life when things simply have to be replaced because they are tired, broken, worn out, harmful, outdated, or irrelevant. Take an inventory of the things that no longer serve your best and highest good so you can replace them with things which do.”
Susan C. Young
Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others.”
Sharon Salzberg
Success looks a lot like consistency over a long period of time.”
Matthew Kobach
In the face of adversity, we have a choice. We can be bitter, or we can be better. Those words are my North Star.”
