Resilience Quotes

"When life gets you down, do you wanna know what you’ve gotta do? Just keep swimming!"

- Dory

"Just because someone stumbles and loses their path, doesn’t mean they’re lost forever."

- Professor X

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I built my life."

- J.K. Rowling

"It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life story will develop."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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

- Maya Angelou

"All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."

- Walt Disney

""You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.""

- Maya Angelou

""Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.""

- Dale Carnegie

"Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality."

- Bruce Lee

"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."

- Bruce Lee

"I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it."

- Ann Richards

"Hard days are the best because that’s when champions are made. If you push through the hard days, then you can get through anything."

- Gabby Douglas

"We survive. We’re Irish. We have the souls of poets. We love our misery, we delight in the beauty of strange places and dark places in our hearts."

- Ellis Flynn

"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

"There is no such thing as bad weather, just soft people."

- Bill Bowerman

"You didn't beat me. You merely finished in front of me."

- Hal Higdon

"No matter the circumstances you may be going through, just push through it."

- Ray Lewis

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

- Jodi Picoult

"What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"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

"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

"Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient."

- Steve Maraboli

"No one escapes pain, fear, and suffering. Yet from pain can come wisdom, from fear can come courage, from suffering can come strength - if we have the virtue of resilience."

- Eric Greitens

"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

"be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

"In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on."

- Robert Frost

"Hard times may have put you down sometimes but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be wise and strong."

- Anurag Prakash Ray

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"Tough times never last, but tough people do"

- Robert Schuller

"As you get older, things conk out. It’s a bit like a car. As long as it’s something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles."

- Len Goodman