50 Quotes About Resilience To Inspire Strength and Perseverance

Throughout everyday life, we as a whole encounter difficulties that test our strength and resilience.

These moments give us amazing opportunities for development and self-discovery.

In this collection of 50 inspiring quotes, we praise the power of resilience and the unyielding spirit that dwells inside every one of us.

Let these useful words of wisdom light a fire inside you, helping you to remember your inner strength and the wonderful limit you have to transcend any misfortune.

Embrace your resilience, and let it guide you on your journey of conquering obstacles and embracing a daily life loaded up with resilience, courage, and triumph.

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

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

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

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

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Henry Ford

It’s not about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
Rocky Balboa

A setback is a setup for a comeback.
Willie Jolley

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 never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.
Bob Marley

Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you thought you couldn’t.
Rikki Rogers

Strength doesn't come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you thought you couldn't

Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.
Jeffrey Gitomer

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

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
Victor Hugo

Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Robert H. Schuller

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

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

Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
Sam Levenson

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Napoleon Hill

It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.
Vince Lombardi

It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up

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

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
C.C. Scott

Resilience is accepting what you can’t change and focusing on what you can.
Unknown

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

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Joseph P. Kennedy

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Desmond Tutu

The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is how high you raise your foot.
Benny Lewis

Life doesn’t always get better, but you do. You get stronger, you learn resilience, and you learn to keep going.
Unknown

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
Lou Holtz

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it

Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.
Susan Gale

Resilience is accepting the harsh realities of life while still believing that a better future awaits.
Unknown

We don’t develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Barbara De Angelis

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

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
J.K. Rowling

I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.
Maya Angelou

Resilience is the ability to find the inner strength to continue when everything seems hopeless.
Unknown

Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
Earl Nightingale

You may feel like a small fish in a big pond, but remember, even a small fish can make big waves.
Unknown

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another

Resilience is accepting that life is a journey with ups and downs, and it’s how we respond to the challenges that truly define us.
Unknown

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

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.
Charles R. Swindoll

Resilience is the antidote to adversity.
Unknown

The only way that we can live is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open.
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