Resilience Quotes

"Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going."

- Yasmin Mogahed

"It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride."

- Warren Buffett

"You can cage the singer but not the song."

- Harry Belafonte

"Rejection is an opportunity for your selection."

- Bernard Branson

"Turbulence breaks a tree's branches, but only tickles an eagle's wings."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"There are no negatives in life, only challenges to overcome that will make you stronger."

- Eric Bates

"The tests we face in life's journey are not to reveal our weaknesses but to help us discover our inner strengths. We can only know how strong we are when we strive and thrive beyond the challenges we face."

- Kemi Sogunle

""Storms make trees take deeper roots.""

- Dolly Parton

"We are stronger in the places we have been broken."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Do not judge me by my success; judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again."

- Nelson Mandela

"I know that being here today is hard... I know that it aches to remember this milestone year after year. And I know that nothing can make it right... And, as the years go by, it may feel that the world is moving on or even forgetting what happened here on Sept. 11, 2001. But please know this: The men and women of the Department of Defense will always remember."

- Lloyd J. Austin III

"These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of America's resolve."

- George W. Bush

"Life is a series of relapses and recoveries."

- George Ade

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Steve Maraboli

"Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them, we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger."

- Dalai Lama

"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get back up."

- Vince Lombardi

"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t."

- Thomas A. Edison

"We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing."

- Mother Teresa

"Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before – it takes something from him."

- Louis L’Armour

"When I’m down or maybe when it’s close in the match, I feel like I’m still in it. I don’t feel like I’m letting down. Mentally, I’m still really, really tough."

- Maria Sharapova

"You’re never a loser until you quit trying."

- Mike Ditka

"A champion is someone who gets up when he can't."

- Jack Dempsey

"If you don’t fall how are you going to know what getting up is like."

- Steph Curry

"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done."

- Rocky Balboa

"Every challenge you overcome fuels your resilience."

"Tough times don't last. Tough people do."

"I am not defined by my relapses but by my decision to remain in recovery despite them."

"If you stumble, make it part of the dance."

"The daily grind of men and women in uniform is the ultimate test of their resilience during adversity."