100+ Inspirational Quotes About Resilience to Empower Your Spirit

"Resilience is distinct from mere survival, and more than mere endurance. Resilience is often endurance with direction."

- Eric Greitens

"Of course fear does not automatically lead to courage. Injury does not necessarily lead to insight. Hardship will not automatically make us better. Pain can break us or make us wiser. Suffering can destroy us or make us stronger. Fear can cripple us, or it can make us more courageous. It is resilience that makes the difference."

- Eric Greitens

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

- Steve Maraboli

"When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives."

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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

- Eric Greitens

"If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"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

"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

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

- Ernest Hemingway

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'"

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."

- Maya Angelou

"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

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists."

- Japanese Proverb

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

- Nelson Mandela

"We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"A good half of the art of living is resilience."

- Alain de Botton

"Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient."

- Steve Maraboli

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice."

- Bob Marley

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

- Nelson Mandela

"The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity."

- Josh Waitzkin

"You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"There will always be obstacles and challenges that stand in your way. Building mental strength will help you develop resilience to those potential hazards so you can continue on your journey to success."

- Amy Morin

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

- J.K. Rowling

"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."

- Christopher Reeve

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."

- Vince Lombardi

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

- Helen Keller

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived."

- Robert Jordan

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

- Viktor Frankl

"It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

- Epictetus

"On the other side of a storm is the strength that comes from having navigated through it. Raise your sail and begin."

- Gregory S. Williams

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."

- Maya Angelou

"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

"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 to 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

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

- Elizabeth Edwards

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

- Helen Keller

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

- Epictetus

"Nothing can dim the light which shines from within."

- Maya Angelou

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."

- Christian D. Larson

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

- Maya Angelou

"She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails."

- Elizabeth Edwards

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have."

- Cayla Mills

"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."

- Kenji Miyazawa

"The best way to predict your future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities."

- Harvey Mackenzie

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it."

- Jordan Belfort

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Don't let yesterday take up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

"Perseverance is not a long race; it's many short races one after the other."

- Walter Elliot

"The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph."

- George Washington

"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible."

- Charles Kingsley

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

- Michael Jordan

"You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you."

- Brian Tracy

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will."

- Vince Lombardi

"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it."

- Horace

"Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive."

- Jamais Cascio

"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

"You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be."

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Jaeda DeWalt

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

- Napoleon Hill

"You are not what happened to you. You are what you choose to become."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

- Jimmy Dean

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"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

"It's not the load that breaks you down; it's the way you carry it."

- Lou Holtz

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."

- Moliere

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars."

- Og Mandino

"Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have lain dormant in its absence."

- Herodotus

"Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."

- Winston Churchill

"Sometimes you don't realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness."

- Susan Gale

"The strongest people aren't always the people who win, but the people who don't give up when they lose."

- Ashley Hodgeson

"Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased."

- Joel Osteen

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas A. Edison

"The darkest hour has only sixty minutes."

- Morris Mandel

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."

- Duke Ellington

"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt."

- Max Lerner

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles."

- Stephen Covey

"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

"It always seems impossible until it's done."

- Nelson Mandela

"The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it."

- Jordan Belfort

"Sometimes when you're in a dark place, you think you've been buried, but you've actually been planted."

- Christine Caine

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, but about learning how to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Human beings have enormous resilience."

- Muhammad Yunus

"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

"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

"As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed."

- Vincent van Gogh

"It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty."

- Dalai Lama

"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

"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

"Courage to me is doing something daring, no matter how afraid, insecure, intimidated, alone, unworthy, incapable, ridiculed or whatever other paralyzing emotion you might feel. Courage is taking action….no matter what. So you’re afraid? Be afraid. Be scared silly to the point you’re trembling and nauseous, but do it anyway!"

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

- Helen Keller

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

- Mary Holloway

"No matter how bleak or menacing a situation may appear, it does not entirely own us. It can’t take away our freedom to respond, our power to take action."

- Ryder Carroll

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

- Sophie Kinsella

"Where there is no struggle, there is no strength."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I rebuilt my life."

- J.K. Rowling

"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure."

- Winston Churchill

"Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It’s the mastery of fear. It’s about getting up one more time than we fall down."

- Arianna Huffington

"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."

- Thomas Edison

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."

- Ambrose Redmoon

"Remember: Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up."

- Rocky Balboa

"Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems."

- Gever Tulley

"I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming."

- Haim G. Ginott

"Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight."

- Bob Marley

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee – and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do."

- Jim Butcher

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

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Mira Nair

"Someone I once loved gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift."

- Mary Oliver

"Courage isn't having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don't have the strength."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure."

- Peter Marshall

"When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realize that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives."

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit."

- Bernard Williams

"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

"The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance."

- Jodi Picoult

"It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment."

- Bram Stoker

"We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward."

- Isabel Allende

"What helps you persevere is your resilience and commitment."

- Roy T. Bennett

"In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life."

- Albert Bandura

"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

"It's your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life's story will develop."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

- Dale Carnegie

"And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear."

- Paulo Coelho

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."

- Marie Curie

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong."

- Muhammad Ali

"If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it."

- Michael Jordan

"Life is very interesting…in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths."

- Drew Barrymore

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"We are stronger, gentler, more resilient, and more beautiful than any of us imagine."

- Mark Nepo

"No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear."

- Greg Kincaid

"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them."

- Steve Maraboli

"Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power."

- Lao Tzu

"Heroism is endurance for one moment more."

- George F. Kennan

"A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live."

- Lao Tzu

"Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it."

- Bryce Courtenay

"Grief and resilience live together."

- Michelle Obama

"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided."

- J.K. Rowling

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Angela Duckworth

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

- Brad Henry

"Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used."

- Richard E. Byrd

"Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out."

- Katherine Dunham

"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

"The most important characteristics you need to succeed in business are resilience, determination and persistence."

- Karren Brady

"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

"The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."

- Charles Dickens

"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

"Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems."

- Gever Tulley

"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

"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

"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."

- Colin R. Davis

"The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance."

- Jodi Picoult

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

- Jo Frost

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory."

- Elie Wiesel

"In a culture fueled by burnout, a culture that has run itself down, our national resilience becomes compromised. And when our collective immune system is weakened, we become more susceptible to viruses that are part of every culture because they're part of human nature - fear-mongering, scapegoating, conspiracy theories, and demagoguery."

- Arianna Huffington

"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 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

"Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat."

- Ralph Ellison

"We will either find a way, or make one."

- Anibal Barca

"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves."

- Edmund Hillary

"Courage is found in unlikely places."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Nothing is more beautiful than the smile that has struggled through the tears."

- Demi Lovato

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice."

- Wayne Dyer

"As long as you’re still alive, you always have the chance to start again."

- Emily Acker

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

- Paul Klee

"You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

- C.S. Lewis

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."

- Victor Hugo

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

- Anais Nin

"He who limps is still walking."

- Stanislaw Lec

"Better to fight for something than live for nothing."

- George S. Patton

"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose."

- Bill Gates

"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

"Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly."

- Robert F. Kennedy

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"What makes you different or weird, that's your strength."

- Meryl Streep

"It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous – even death is terrible only if we fear it."

- Epictetus

"Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time."

- Maya Angelou

"We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free."

- Kavita Ramdas

"Get busy living or get busy dying.....there ain't nothing inbetween."

- Stephen King

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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 is, of course, necessary for a warrior. But a lack of empathy isn't."

- Phil Klay

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

- Ncuti Gatwa

"A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep."

- Vernon Howard

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

- Kevin Rudd

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

- David Petraeus

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

- Victor J. Glover

"My message has always been about resilience."

- Dave Pelzer

"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

"Out of difficulties grow miracles."

- Jean de La Bruyère

"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

"Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't – surrender to events with hope."

- Alain de Botton

"I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."

- Audrey Hepburn

"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

"There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast."

- Charles Dickens

"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

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

- Lao Tzu

"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done."

- Vincent van Gogh

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

- Joanie Connell

"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

"Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself."

- Michel de Montaigne

"The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield."

- George Orwell

"The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure."

- B. C. Forbes

"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."

- Toni Morrison

"A brave man acknowledges the strength of others."

- Veronica Roth

"An open enemy is better than a false friend."

- Greek Proverb

"In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word 'divorce' came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant 'divide.' In truth, it comes from 'divertere,' which means 'to divert.' I believe that. All divorce does is divert you."

- Mitch Albom

"No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown."

- William Penn

"Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well."

- Anita Shreve

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

- Alan K. Simpson

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

- Laura Lippman

"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

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

- Roger Stone

"Strength does not come from the body. It comes from the will."

"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up."

"Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can."

"Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got."

"The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered, there is opportunity for growth."

"When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place."

"No matter how much it hurts now, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better."

"The harder you fall, the higher you bounce."

"The true test of a person’s character is how they stand during a test of adversity."