Resilience Quotes

"Just walking through this life as a Black person, and actually surviving that, was and still is an ovation-worthy performance."

- Cicely Tyson

"It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate."

- James Baldwin

"It may be a while before we find our footing again. The losses will reverberate for years to come. We will get shaken and shaken again. The world will remain both beautiful and broken. The uncertainties aren’t going away. But when equilibrium isn’t possible, we are challenged to evolve."

- Michelle Obama

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

- Bruce Lee

"Success isn't determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose."

- Pele

"We wait for life to get easier. But life never gets easier. What happens is you handle hard better."

- Kara Lawson

"No one plays this or any game perfectly. It’s the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins."

- Phil Jackson

"We all do well when things are going well. What distinguishes athletes is the ability to do well in times of great pressure."

- Roger Staubach

"Liberty has been planted here; and the more it is attacked, the more it grows and flourishes."

- Samuel Sherwood

"It is possible to commit no errors and still lose. That's not a weakness. That's life."

- Captain Jean-Luc Picard

"You will survive, and you will find purpose in the chaos. Moving on doesn't mean letting go."

- Mary VanHaute

"A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks."

- Steve Guttenberg

"If I went by all the rejection I’ve had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago."

- Mike Myers

"A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success."

- Bo Bennett

"It ain’t about how hard you hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward"

- Master Oogway, Kung Fu Panda

"Life goes on"

- JustinDupre

"In every setback, there is a setup for a comeback."

- Deion Sanders

"Dream big, but don't be upset if it doesn't happen."

- Mikaela Shiffrin

"Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself."

- Walter Anderson

"Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken."

- Albert Camus

"I have had dreams, and I’ve had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams."

- Jonas Salk

"Beauty lies in how we face life's challenges."

"Your resilience is your beauty."

"The journey ahead may be challenging, but I am capable of facing and overcoming any obstacles to my happiness."

"You can’t control what happens to you but you can control how you react to it."

"The same boiling water that softens the potato, hardens the egg. It's about what you're made of, not the circumstances"

""Life isn't always about speed; sometimes, it's about resilience, like the turtle.""

"The resilience of a sea turtle reflects the need for endurance in ocean conservation"

- Unknown

"No is not rejection, it is redirection"

"Life's challenges are best met with a turtle's endurance."

- Unknown