90 Resilience Quotes to Help You Face Hard Times and Adversity

Everyone experiences tough times in life. How you tackle such difficult situations and come out as winner or learner, is what makes a difference. There will always be obstacles and challenges that stand in your way. Resilience is all about being able to overcome such unexpected challenges. When you tackle obstacles being resilient help you to overcome and move on the path of success. In this article we have curated resilience quotes to help you face hard times and adversity.

Resilience Quotes

1. “The path to resilience goes through sufferings.” ~ Invajy

2. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” ~ Margaret Thatcher

3. “Having a sense of purpose and direction in life is an important source of resilience.” ~ Invajy

4. “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” ~ Steve Maraboli

5. “Resilience is developed through experience. You have to face tough situations and get knocked down in order to learn how to pick yourself back up.” ~ Invajy

6. “Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up.” ~ Mary Holloway
7. “Resilience is not a kind of trait that people are born with; it involves behaviors, mindset, thoughts, and actions that can be learned and developed in anyone.” ~ Invajy
8. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” ~ Winston S. Churchill
9. “Everyone needs challenges in life to develop resilience.” ~ Invajy
10. “The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.” ~ Woodrow Wilson

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11. “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
12. “You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, over thinking it. You have to go down the chute.” ~ Tina Fey
13. “Resilience is, of course, necessary for a warrior. But a lack of empathy isn’t.” ~ Phil Klay
14. “We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.” ~ Stephen Covey
15. “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.” ~ Joshua Waitzkin
16. “Building resilience helps us cope better with the change.” ~ Invajy
17. “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
18. “Resilience has been described as the capacity for positive outcomes despite challenging or threatening circumstances.” ~ Byron Egeland
19. “A few people are born resilient. The rest of us need to work consciously at developing our abilities.” ~ Al Siebert
20. “Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems.” ~ Gever Tulley

Quotes about Resilience

21. “Resilient people are able to view crisis situations in a realistic way, and then set reasonable goals to deal with the challenges.” ~ Invajy
22. “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
23. “She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.” ~ Elizabeth Edwards
24. “Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.” ~ Alex Karras
25. “He’s a million rubber bands in his resilience.” ~ Alan K. Simpson
26. “Experience life in all possible ways — good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.” ~ Osho
27. “We will either find a way, or make one.” ~ Anibal Barca
28. “I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded.” ~ Gail Borden
29. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” ~ Napoleon Hill
30. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” ~ Proverb

Quotes on Resilience

31. “Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.” ~ Anthony Robbins
32. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” ~ Thomas Edison
33. “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” ~ Kahlil Gibran
34. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” ~ Colin R. Davis
35. “The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.” ~ Barack Obama
36. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” ~ Charles Darwin
37. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ~ Winston S. Churchill
38. “There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.” ~ Sophie Kinsella
39. “Being optimistic creates hope and promotes resilience. I know that staying positive during unfavorable times can be difficult, but maintaining a hopeful and positive outlook is an critical part of resiliency.” ~ Invajy
40. “Resilience is born by grounding yourself in your own loveliness, hitting notes you thought were way out of your range.” ~ Gregory Boyle

Resilient Woman Quotes

41. “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” ~ Helen Keller
42. “Resilience is overcoming adversity, whilst also potentially changing, or even dramatically transforming, (aspects of) that adversity.” ~ Angie Hart
43. “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” ~ Maya Angelou
44. “Our resilience increases as we recognize the magnitude of what we have already accomplished.” ~ Patricia O’Gorman
45. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I rebuilt my life.” ~ J.K. Rowling
46. “Each deep breath taken during Yoga practice builds internal strength and resilience.” ~ Purvi Raniga
48. “No matter how you define success, you will need to be resilient, empowered, authentic, and limber to get there.” ~ Joanie Connell
49. “Loving ourselves calls us to give up the illusion that we can control everything and focuses us on building our inner resource of resilience.” ~ Sharon Salzberg
50. “The more we can embrace failure, the more we will be able to open to it and the more confident and resilient we will become.” ~ Karen Kimsey-House
51. “Proactively working to develop mental strength increases your resilience to stress and reduces the toll it takes on you both physically and mentally.” ~ Amy Morin

Resilience Quotes

51. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
52. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
53. “The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.” ~ Proverb
54. “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
55. “Resilience is the ability to attack while running away.” ~ Wes Fessler
56. “Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.” ~ Jamais Cascio
57. “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
58. “Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before.” ~ Elizabeth Edwards
59. “The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” ~ Winston Churchill
60. “Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn’t matter.” ~ Elizabeth Edwards

Resilient Quotes

61. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.” ~ David Brinkley
62. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” ~ Nelson Mandela
63. “Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember–the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.” ~ Zig Ziglar
64. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” ~ Conrad Hilton
65. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” ~ Vidal Sassoon
66. “It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setbacks.” ~ Bob Richards
67. “People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” ~ Tony Robbins
68. “Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.” ~ Malcolm S. Forbes
69. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” ~ Steve Jobs
70. “If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.” ~ Shane Koyczan

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71. “No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear.” ~ Greg Kincaid
72. “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
73. “Resilience is distinct from mere survival, and more than mere endurance. Resilience is often endurance with direction.” ~ Eric Greitens
74. “Resilience or hardiness is the ability to adapt to new circumstances when life presents the unpredictable.” ~ Salvatore R. Maddi
75. “Resiliency is the ability to spring back from and successfully adapt to adversity.” ~ Nan Henderson
76. “Blaming others for how bad things are for you, keeps you in a non-resilient victim state in which you do not take resiliency actions.” ~ Al Siebert
77. “All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families.” ~ Steven Pressfield
78. “You learn to be resilient, to survive when you know you are capable of making worthy contribution to the world; you fight it when you have nothing to lose and so much to gain.” ~ Mala Naidoo
79. “The most resilient people are like playful, curious children.” ~ Al Sieber
80. “Resilience can go an awful long way.” ~ Eddie the Eagle

Quotes about Resilience and Hope

81. “Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.” ~ Angela Duckworth
82. “The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” ~ Robert Jordan
83. “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
84. “Resilience is not about being able to bounce back like nothing has happened. Resilience is your consistent resistance to give up.” ~ Janna Cachola
85. “The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” ~ Jodi Picoult
86. “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
87. “My barn having burned down, I can now see the moon.” ~ Mizuta Masahide
88. “Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” ~ Nelson Mandela
89. “Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.” ~ Robert F. Kennedy
90. “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

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