Resilience Quotes

A good half of the art of living is resilience.

Alain de Botton

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

Dieter F Uchtdorf

Grief and resilience live together.

Michelle Obama

Throwing yourselves into recovery doesn’t mean hiding from grief, pain, misery, aching. It just means you go with the present experience—when these emotions come, you open up to them and let them in—but you choose to get up in the morning and get out in the knowledge that, if you want to win this fight for survival, you’ve got to step up and take control.

Lucy Hone

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

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

Maya Angelou

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

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

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

As much as talent counts, effort counts twice.

Angela Duckworth

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

Michael Rutter

Resilience is overcoming adversity, whilst also potentially changing, or even dramatically transforming, aspects of that adversity.

Angie Hart

Resiliency is the ability to spring back from and successfully adapt to adversity.

Nan Henderson

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

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 Edison

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

Jodi Picoult

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.

Margaret Thatcher