Resilience Quotes

"If you nurse every wound you get on a sailboat, you will spend all your time nursing wounds. It’s best to just blurt a four-letter word and keep going."

- Michelle Segrest

"You’re going to fall down, but the world doesn’t care how many times you fall down, as long as it’s one fewer than the number of times you get back up."

- Aaron Sorkin

"Nobody else is paying as much attention to your failures as you are…to everyone else, it’s just a blip on the radar screen, so just move on."

- Jerry Zucker

"You can walk away and say 'We don't need this,' but something in your eyes says 'We can beat this.'"

- Taylor Swift

"There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people."

- Bill Bowerman

"Failure makes me work even harder."

- Michael Jordan

"I will not quit this game because of what the media has done to me."

- Michael Jordan

"Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving; we get stronger and more resilient."

- Steve Maraboli

"Resilience is born by grounding yourself in your own loveliness, hitting notes you thought were way out of your range."

- Greg Boyle

"If you’re facing a problem, don’t tell yourself that you can’t do it. Convince yourself that you have the strength to deal with almost anything because of the way you were raised. And you do! Recognizing your core strengths is an important step toward having joie de vivre. You can count on better days to come because of the good days that came before. And you can find joy in the moment because you have the resiliency to overcome the problems that may be hanging over you."

- Ruth Westheimer

"The only thing tragedy gives us is the opportunity to rebuild our life."

- Paul Klee

"Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success."

- J.K. Rowling

"life is tough but so are you"

- Maya Angelou

"No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away."

- Terry Pratchett

"I have been seriously afraid at times but have used my fear as a stimulating factor rather than allowing it to paralyse me. My abilities have not been outstanding, but I have had sufficient strength and determination to meet my challenges and have usually managed to succeed with them."

- Edmund Hillary

"There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength’. No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster."

- Dalai Lama

"Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before.  You can fight it, you can do nothing, but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that’s good."

- Buddhist Proverb

"Fall seven times; stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"Fall down seven times, get up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly – indeed, to embrace uncertainty and imperfection."

- Arianna Huffington

"Grief is never something you get over. You don’t wake up one morning and say, “I’ve conquered that: now I’m moving on.” It’s something that walks beside you every day."

- Terri Irwin

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

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"Unseen strengths reveal themselves when you outsmart your own routine."

"The good seaman weathers the storm he cannot avoid and avoids the storm he cannot weather."

"To a daughter who embodies grace and resilience, may your birthday be as splendid as the path you’ve carved for yourself. Here’s to flourishing in the year ahead!"

"Happy birthday to my fierce and resilient daughter! Your ability to weather any storm and come out stronger is truly inspiring. May this year bring you as much happiness and strength as you bring to those around you."

"Every challenge you've faced has only made you stronger, every joy has made you kinder. I'm so proud of the woman you're becoming. Happy birthday."

"Haters gonna hate."

"Giving up doesn't always mean you're weak; sometimes you're just strong enough to let go."