Resilience Quotes

"An injured lion still wants to roar."

- Randy Pausch

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

- Steve Maraboli

"Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare."

- Angela Duckworth

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

- Robert Jordan

"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

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else."

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

- Jodi Picoult

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

- Shane Koyczan

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

- Greg Kincaid

"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

"My barn having burned down, I can now see the moon."

- Mizuta Masahide

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

- Gever Tulley

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

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"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

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

- J.K. Rowling

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

- Elizabeth Edwards

"A good half of the art of living is resilience."

- Alain de Botton

"Grief and resilience live together."

- Michelle Obama

"No matter how bleak or menacing a situation may appear, it does not entirely own us. It can’t take away our freedom to respond, our power to take action."

- Ryder Carroll

"On the other side of a storm is the strength that comes from having navigated through it. Raise your sail and begin."

- Gregory S. Williams

"I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded."

- Gail Borden

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

- Woodrow Wilson

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

- Bob Richards

"Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly."

- Robert F. Kennedy

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

- Confucius

"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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Winston Churchill

"The strongest hearts have the most scars."