50 Inspirational Quotes About Resilience to Empower You

"Resilience isn't just about getting through tough times; it's about using those experiences to your advantage. It's learning from every setback and using that knowledge to make better decisions in the future. The challenges you face today will help you face tomorrow's challenges with greater confidence. This kind of resilience is what transforms good leaders into great ones."

- Matt Frentheway

"Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare."

- Angela Duckworth

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

- Robert Jordan

"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."

- Elizabeth Edwards

"You can’t lose confidence in yourself, or you’ve lost already. When you get knocked down, you’ve got to keep getting back up."

- Tim Tebow

"Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down."

- Charles F. Kettering

"It’s during our very worst fall that we can either die or learn to fly."

- Sira Masetti

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

- Gregory Boyle

"A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t."

- Jack Dempsey

"Resilience is built from real hardship and cannot be bought or manufactured."

- Julie Lythcott-Haim

"I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying."

- Jeff Bezos

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

"It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure."

- Mary Kay Ash

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

- Robert F. Kennedy

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Steve Maraboli

"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

"My barn having burned down, I can now see the moon."

- Mizuta Masahide

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

- Gever Tulley

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

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- J.K. Rowling

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

- Elizabeth Edwards

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

- Alain de Botton

"Grief and resilience live together."

- Michelle Obama

"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

"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

"I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded."

- Gail Borden

"It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setbacks."

- Bob Richards

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

- Robert F. Kennedy

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

- Confucius

"Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you are going to do right now, and do it. Today is your lucky day."

- Will Durant

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

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

- Helen Keller

"If you’re going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Jaeda Dewalt

"Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going."

- Yasmin Mogahed

"Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others."

- Sharon Salzberg

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Thomas A. Edison

"Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on."

- Les Brown

"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

"No one escapes pain, fear, and suffering. Yet from pain can come wisdom, from fear can come courage, from suffering can come strength – if we have the virtue of resilience."

- Eric Greitens

"Successful people demonstrate their resilience through their dedication to making progress every day, even if that progress is marginal."

- Jonathan Mills

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

- Og Mandino

"I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance. Never settle for the path of least resistance."

- Lee Ann Womack

"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

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

- Mary Holloway

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Definitions have evolved over time but fundamentally resilience is understood as referring to positive adaptation, or the ability to maintain or regain mental health, despite experiencing adversity."

- Helen Herrman

"Resilience represents a constellation of characteristics that protect individuals from the potential negative effect of stressors."

- Ivan Robertson

"The human spirit is tremendously resilient. It can withstand the most horrific of circumstances, whether of human or divine creation... It is not these larger-than-life situations that beat us. It's the little things."

- Sheila Williams

"Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain."

- Emil Dorian

"To be rendered powerless does not destroy your humanity. Your resilience is your humanity. The only people who lose their humanity are those who believe they have the right to render another human being powerless. They are the weak. To yield and not break, that is incredible strength."

- Hannah Gadsby

"Resilience is a process and a staircase. You might be on step four of the staircase, and I might be on step one, but we can both keep moving up the staircase so that our resilience levels will hopefully exceed the rising tide of stress."

- Glenn Schiraldi

"There are two kinds of strength. Power and the ability to wield it is obvious, but a resilience, the ability to resist power, is the other."

- Raymond E. Feist

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"I will not be another flower, picked for my beauty and left to die. I will be wild, difficult to find, and impossible to forget."

- Erin Van Vuren

"Resilience is our ability to bounce back from life’s challenges and unforeseen difficulties, providing mental protection from emotional and mental disorders."

- Michael Rutter

"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 on 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

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

- Greg Kincaid

"Failure is a part of life. Success teaches you nothing, but failure teaches you resilience. It teaches you to pick yourself up and try again."

- Sarah Morgan

"The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me?"

- Ayn Rand

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

- Roy T. Bennett

"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

"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

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"The day is what you make it! So why not make it a great one?"

- Steve Schulte

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."

- Jimmy Johnson

"Resilience arises out of a belief in one’s own self-efficacy, the ability to deal with change, and use of a repertoire of problem-solving skills."

- Brigid Gillespie

"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.

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

- Thomas Edison

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

- Alan Watts

"Change what you can, manage what you can’t."

- Raymond McCauley

"Life throws challenges but with patience and resilience, you can convert every challenge into a new opportunity to grow."

- Amit Ray

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice."

- Stephen Covey

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

- Jodi Picoult

"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

"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

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

- Greg Kincaid

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

- Angela Duckworth

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat."

- Woodrow Wilson

"If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces."

- Shane Koyczan

"Resilience is the ability to attack while running away."

- Wes Fessler

"My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me."

- Paula McLain

"Remember an arrow can only be shot by pulling it backwards; so when you feel like life is dragging you down with difficulties, it simply means that it’s going to launch you to something great. So just focus and keep aiming."

"Note to self: every time you were convinced you couldn’t go on, you did."