Resilience Quotes

"When we learn how to become resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautifully broad spectrum of the human experience."

- Jaeda DeWalt

"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

"We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice."

- Stephen Covey

"Resilience is the ability to attack while running away."

- Wes Fessler

"Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others."

- Sharon Salzberg

"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

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on."

- Les Brown

"Like tiny seeds with potent power to push through tough ground and become mighty trees, we hold innate reserves of unimaginable strength. We are resilient."

- Catherine DeVrye

"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

"Successful people demonstrate their resilience through their dedication to making progress every day, even if that progress is marginal."

- Jonathan Mills

"We all have battles to fight. And it’s often in those battles that we are most alive: it’s on the frontlines of our lives that we earn wisdom, create joy, forge friendships, discover happiness, find love, and do purposeful work."

- Eric Greitens

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

- Og Mandino

"I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance. Never settle for the path of least resistance."

- Lee Ann Womack

"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

"Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up."

- Mary Holloway

"As much as talent counts, effort counts twice."

- Angela Duckworth

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Definitions have evolved over time but fundamentally resilience is understood as referring to positive adaptation, or the ability to maintain or regain mental health, despite experiencing adversity."

- Helen Herrman

"My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me."

- Paula McLain

"Resilience represents a constellation of characteristics that protect individuals from the potential negative effect of stressors."

- Ivan Robertson

"The human spirit is tremendously resilient. It can withstand the most horrific of circumstances, whether of human or divine creation... It is not these larger-than-life situations that beat us. It's the little things."

- Sheila Williams

"Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain."

- Emil Dorian

"To be rendered powerless does not destroy your humanity. Your resilience is your humanity. The only people who lose their humanity are those who believe they have the right to render another human being powerless. They are the weak. To yield and not break, that is incredible strength."

- Hannah Gadsby

"Resilience is a process and a staircase. You might be on step four of the staircase, and I might be on step one, but we can both keep moving up the staircase so that our resilience levels will hopefully exceed the rising tide of stress."

- Glenn Schiraldi

"There are two kinds of strength. Power and the ability to wield it is obvious, but a resilience, the ability to resist power, is the other."

- Raymond E. Feist

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

- Kahlil Gibran

"I will not be another flower, picked for my beauty and left to die. I will be wild, difficult to find, and impossible to forget."

- Erin van Vuren

"Resilience is our ability to bounce back from life’s challenges and unforeseen difficulties, providing mental protection from emotional and mental disorders."

- Michael Rutter

"Everyone has the ability to increase resilience to stress. It requires hard work and dedication, but over time, you can equip yourself to handle whatever life throws your way without adverse effects on your health. Training your brain to manage stress won't just affect the quality of your life, but perhaps even the length of it."

- Amy Morin