Resilience Quotes

"My message has always been about resilience."

- Dave Pelzer

"The SEALs were very good in teaching me hard skills - that means resilience, pushing past your mental and physical boundaries; and having an enormously high threshold for pain."

- Jonny Kim

"Everyone needs resilience. It's a virtue essential to growth and essential to happiness."

- Eric Greitens

"Anyone who has lived in an area with high unemployment knows how it erodes social bonds, lowers the resilience of the unemployed and their families, and damages the prospects of the next generation."

- Sharan Burrow

"As a child growing up in refugee camps, life taught me that many things were impossible. My older sister, Claire, taught me otherwise when her strength and resilience made the impossible possible in the way she worked, behaved, and took control of our lives."

- Clemantine Wamariya

"As my kids grow up, I think a lot about the lessons and values I want to impart to them. More than any particular skill or even financial support, I believe perseverance and resilience will serve them best, regardless of what curveball life inevitably throws them."

- Sal Khan

"Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated."

- Brad Henry

"I think there are things that we can all do to build resilience in ourselves, but also to build resilience in each other."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Resilience has always been something I've seen and admired."

- Ncuti Gatwa

"Failing well is a skill. Letting girls do it gives them critical practice coping with a negative experience. It also gives them the opportunity to develop a kind of confidence and resilience that can only be forged in times of challenge."

- Rachel Simmons

"You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined."

- Elizabeth Edwards

"When picking my original music, Tina Turner was someone I wanted in my routine because of the strong impact she has had on my life. I admire her courage and resilience."

- Katelyn Ohashi

"I still enjoy playing some of those early Straits songs, and I'm proud of what we did, and certainly we had some great times. It's what we all wanted when we were kids. But you've got to have the resilience to ride that thing, to pick up that ball and run with it. Because you will keep picking it up and keep running."

- Mark Knopfler

"Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience."

- Laura Lippman

"I have an incredible confidence in the resilience of the human spirit and the creative ability of the Holy Spirit. So, if you can get people asking the right questions, it really will start moving in the right direction."

- Erwin McManus

"I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team."

- Gary Neville

"Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger."

- Brad Henry

"I was six months pregnant when my brother died and my daughter was four-months-old when my mother expired. Gradually, I developed an inner resilience as today I believe there is a rainbow at the end of each storm."

- Pooja Bedi

"We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival."

- Joan Halifax

"A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back."

- Kate Reardon

"Sleep is a key part of the requirements for resilience and good decision-making."

- James G. Stavridis

"Resilience can only form if we face, and learn how to be better equipped to manage, our problems."

- Jo Frost

"No, I've always been impressed with the tremendous resilience of the American economy. I think over the years, over the decades, it's demonstrated this tremendous ability to take severe body blows, if you will, and bounce back."

- Dick Cheney

"Human beings have enormous resilience."

- Muhammad Yunus

"If you are lucky enough to never experience any sort of adversity, we won't know how resilient you are. It's only when you're faced with obstacles, stress, and other environmental threats that resilience, or the lack of it, emerges: Do you succumb or do you surmount?"

- Maria Konnikova

"I do believe there's a heaven. I do believe that God has given me the resilience and the survival skills to withstand the chiffon trenches."

- Andre Leon Talley

"I think that life is difficult. People have challenges. Family members get sick, people get older, you don't always get the job or the promotion that you want. You have conflicts in your life. And really, life is about your resilience and your ability to go through your life and all of the ups and downs with a positive attitude."

- Jennifer Hyman

"Pearl Harbor remains a symbol of American resilience and resolve, and we pray for all those that have served and continue to serve in our military. May we never forget their bravery and sacrifice."

- Jim Justice

"If you consider yourself a victim, you are not going to have a good life; if, however, you refuse to think of yourself as a victim–if you refuse to let your inner self be conquered by your external circumstances–you are likely to have a good life."

- William B. Irvine

"Sometimes carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement."

- Albert Camus