Resilience Quotes

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

– Shane Koyczan

Resilience is an integral part of one’s character. It depicts your mental strength and growth as a person. There are several ways by which you can cultivate and inspire resilience. However, before moving ahead, let’s understand what resilience really means.

“Resilience is adapting well in the face of adversities, problems, threats, or high level of stress.” 

Irrespective of the source for your stressors if you can bounce back from difficult experiences then you are a resilient person. Resilience is not a trait which people either have or do not have. It has a much broader meaning, as it involves thoughts, behavior, and actions. The best thing about it is that it can be cultivated and developed at any age. You will have to take decisive steps in the right direction.

A good start will be finding reading material that resonates with you and your resilient future self. The words that motivate you empowers you to keep your spirits up during difficult times. Well-written quotes about the resilience of the human spirit have inspired a generation.

Next time you feel that you are at the bottom, you can try these words of encouragement and wisdom to inspire you to bounce back in life. Whatever, your situation maybe you can find all kinds of resilience quotes here like, funny resilience quotes, sports resilience quotes, I am resilient quotes, etc.

Here is our list of top 30 Resilience quotes. One quote for each day of the month. You can now have a resilient quote of the day or resilient quote of the month:

“There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, and it turns out.”

– Sophie Kinsella

“Everyone needs resilience because one thing is certain; life includes adversities.”

– Karen Reivich


“Persistence and resilience only come from having been given a chance to work through difficult problems.”

– Gever Tulley

“The oak fought the wind and was broken; the willow bent when it must and survived.”

– Robert Jordan


“Do not judge me by my success; judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”

– Nelson Mandela


“What helps you persevere is your resilience and commitment.”

– Roy T. Bennett

“True resilience fosters well-being, an underlying sense of happiness, love, and peace.”

– Rick Hanson


“Failure is an important part of your growth and developing resilience.”

– Michelle Obama


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

– Maya Angelou

“Become more resilient by learning to focus on solutions rather than problems.”

– Byron Pulsifer


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

– Jodi Picoult


“It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”

– Germany Kent


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

– Unknown


“Women are like teabags. We don’t know our true strength until we are in hot water.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”

– Ambrose Redmoon


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

– Emil Dorian


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

– J.K. Rowling


“To make it in your chosen career, moving towards retirement, means that you have resilience in working smarter not harder.”

– Theodore W. Higginsworth

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

– Paula McLain


“Someone I once loved gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.”

– Mary Oliver


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

– Jonathan Mills

“My barn having burned down; I can now see the moon.”

– Mizuta Masahide


“I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.”

– Ernest Hemingway


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

– Elizabeth Edwards

“Calm is the magic elixir that brings you to a place of balance, harmony, and peace.”

– Donald Altman


“Each one of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”

– Sheryl Sandberg


“I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”

– William Ernest Henley

“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


“Perhaps what matters when all is said and done is not who puts us down but who picks us up.”

– Kate DiCamillo


“Resilience is an important key. Protect the key to your peaceful heart.”

– Angelica Hopes