Resilience Quotes

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“Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all you were intended to be.”

– Charles Jones

“When we face the worst that can happen in any situation, we grow. When circumstances are at their worst, we can find our best.”

– Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”

– Winston Churchill

“I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.”

-George Patton

“Failure is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign that you are alive and growing.”

-Buzz Aldrin

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

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

– Bob Richards

“Wow! A brand new day for new beginnings and new decisions. It is time to refocus, renew, refresh, brush up the resolutions, re-energize and to recommit. I love second chances.”
-Caroline Naoroji

“Although the world is full of suffering, it’s full also of overcoming it.”
—Helen Keller

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
-Richard David Bach

“Adversity does not build character, it reveals it.”
—James Lane Allen

“When something bad happens you have three choices: You can let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.”
—Theodor Seuss Geisel 

“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

“One day you will tell the story of how you overcame what you went through and it will be someone else’s survival guide.”
— Brene Brown

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

“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”
—Albert Camus 

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”
—Albert Einstein

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which they have overcome.”
—Booker T. Washington

“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
—William Ellery Channing 

“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

“There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of self-mastery.”
—Robin Sharma

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

– Thomas Edison

“It’s the bounce that counts! Picking ourselves up after life’s hurdle.”

– Tessa Bielecki

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

– Stephen Covey

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

– Confucius

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

– Elizabeth Edwards

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

– Robert F. Kennedy

“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”
—Moliere

“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.”
—Lao Tzu

“Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with failure.”
-Erik Weihenmayer

“Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”

– Dolly Parton.

“Sometimes, when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place.”
 – Unknown

“The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.”
– John McEnroe

“Don’t let a bad day trick you into thinking you have a bad life.”
—Allie Newman

“You can spend your entire life focusing on your scars, or proudly carry them with you as you reach for the stars.”
— Allyson Partridge

“Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”

― Dale Carnegie

“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.”
—C.S. Lewis 

“It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop.”
—Dieter F. Uchtdorf 

“If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.”
—Mary Pickford 

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”
—Anne Bradstreet

“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials. ”
—Chinese Proverb

“Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”
—Pope John XXIII

“And suddenly you know – it’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.”

– Meister Eckhart

“And thus, like the wounded oyster, he mends his shell with pearl.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

When life puts you in tough situations, don’t say ‘Why me?’ say, “Try me!”

– Unknown

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

– Oprah Winfrey

“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”

– Michael Jordan

“Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.”

– Unknown

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

– Ernest Hemingway

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

– Unknown

“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”
—James Joyce

“Falling down is part of life. Getting back up is living.”
-Anonymous

“Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.”
– Hank Aaron

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

– Unknown

“Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.”
—Sonia Ricotti

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”
—Maya Angelou

“Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems.”
– Sun Tzu

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

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”

– Dale Carnegie

“Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.”
—Gever Tulley 

“Your attitude towards problems, difficulties, and adversities is the most important factor in overcoming them.”
—Napoleon Hill

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

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”
—C.S. Lewis

“Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.”
—Leigh Mitchell Hodges

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
—John Powell