Resilience Quotes

"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it."

- Horace

"When we are no longer able to change the situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

- Viktor Frankl

"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."

- Viktor Frankl

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

- Nelson Mandela

"I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances; we carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us, in our minds, wherever we go."

- Martha Washington

"There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out."

- Sophie Kinsella

"Because, you know, resilience — if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities."

- Jeff Bezos

"I think we build resilience to prepare for whatever adversity we’ll face. And we all face some adversity – we’re all living some form of Option B."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Develop resilience and be brave. There are days when it is very discouraging. You have to develop personal resilience to environmental things that come along. If you let every single environmental challenge knock you off your game, it’s going to be very, very hard."

- Renee James

"People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life’s circumstances to push them down and hold them under."

- Charles Swindoll

"I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate."

- George Burns

"Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things – of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires."

- Sheri L. Dew

"When I look back, some of the greatest people in the history of the world have created things where paths have never been with such resiliency."

- Joy Mangano

"No matter how you define success, you will need to be resilient, empowered, authentic, and limber to get there."

- Joanie Connell

"I’m inspired by people that are marginal. I’m excited by their resilience."

- Mira Nair

"Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things - of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires."

- Sheri L. Dew

"He's a million rubber bands in his resilience."

- Alan K. Simpson

"Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities."

- Jeff Bezos

"Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before."

- Elizabeth Edwards

"When fear rushed in, I learned how to hear my heart racing but refused to allow my feelings to sway me. That resilience came from my family. It flowed through our bloodline."

- Coretta Scott King

"Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience."

- Kevin Rudd

"What the Anzac legend did do, by the bravery and sacrifice of our troops, was reinforce our own cultural notions of independence, mateship, and ingenuity. Of resilience and courage in adversity."

- Paul Keating

"Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good."

- Brooke Shields

"My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors."

- Mike Leigh

"Obviously, resilience matters. I was no stranger to adversity, but it's different when it's personal. Not something I would recommend."

- David Petraeus

"I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering."

- Kay Redfield Jamison

"To be a black person is to come from a long bloodline of survivors and storytellers, with a resilience that people can't even comprehend."

- Lena Waithe

"I was raised in a house where my mom was the primary breadwinner. It was a dysfunctional house, but she showed tremendous resilience."

- Chamath Palihapitiya

"The reason I'm a Nixonite is because of his indestructibility and resilience. He never quit."

- Roger Stone

"Resilience is one of the most important aspects in this business and exploration period."

- Victor J. Glover