Being resilient is more about finding the positive in the negative, more than anything. If you find yourself slipping into a negative mindset, read through these quotes on resilience to find strength in your time of need.
Resilience Quotes
“He’s a million rubber bands in his resilience.” – Alan K. Simpson
“Resilience is born by grounding yourself in your own loveliness, hitting notes you thought were way out of your range.” – Gregory Boyle
“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 is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston S. Churchill
“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” – Steve Maraboli
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” – Helen Keller
“No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear.” – Greg Kincaid
“Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.” – Alex Karras
“Each deep breath taken during Yoga practice builds internal strength and resilience.” – Purvi Raniga
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston S. Churchill
“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
“The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.” – Proverb
“Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” – Nelson Mandela
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” – Maya Angelou
“The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.” – Woodrow Wilson
“A few people are born resilient. The rest of us need to work consciously at developing our abilities.” – Al Siebert
“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
“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
“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
“Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems.” – Gever Tulley
“She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.” – Elizabeth Edwards
“My barn having burned down, I can now see the moon.” – Mizuta Masahide
“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember–the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.” – Zig Ziglar
“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
“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
“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
“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” – Robert Jordan
“The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.” – Barack Obama
“It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setbacks.” – Bob Richards
“Resilience can go an awful long way.” – Eddie the Eagle
“Resilience is the ability to attack while running away.” – Wes Fessler
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
“I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded.” – Gail Borden
“If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.” – Shane Koyczan
“Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.” – Yasmin Mogahed
“Resilience or hardiness is the ability to adapt to new circumstances when life presents the unpredictable.” – Salvatore R. Maddi
“Experience life in all possible ways — good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.” – Osho
“Resilience is overcoming adversity, whilst also potentially changing, or even dramatically transforming, (aspects of) that adversity.” – Angie Hart
“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.” – Al Siebert
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
“Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you are going to do right now, and do it. Today is your lucky day.” – Will Durant
“There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.” – Sophie Kinsella
“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” – Steve Jobs
“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.” – David Brinkley
“Rock bottom became the solid foundation in 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
“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
“Our resilience increases as we recognize the magnitude of what we have already accomplished.” – Patricia O’Gorman
“Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.” – Angela Duckworth
“Resilience is distinct from mere survival, and more than mere endurance. Resilience is often endurance with direction.” – Eric Greitens
“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.” – Anthony Robbins
“Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up.” – Mary Holloway
“Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.” – Jamais Cascio
“Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy
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