50+ Quotes to Cultivate Resilience

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

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

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

'It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.' - Vince Lombardi

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

'Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.' - Confucius

'You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.' - Margaret Thatcher

'The best way out is always through.' - Robert Frost

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

'Fall seven times, stand up eight.' - Japanese Proverb

'Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.' - Walt Whitman

'In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.' - Albert Einstein

'The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.' - Winston Churchill

'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.' - Helen Keller

'Believe you can and you're halfway there.' - Theodore Roosevelt

'I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.' - Maya Angelou

'Resilience is not a single skill, but a variety of coping mechanisms.' - Judy Snyder

'You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.' - Maya Angelou

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

'When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.' - Henry Ford

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

'The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.' - Franklin D. Roosevelt

'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

'Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.' - William Butler Yeats

'If you are going through hell, keep going.' - Winston Churchill

'Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.' - John F. Kennedy

'It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.' - Charles Darwin

'Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.' - Jim Rohn

'The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.' - Albert Einstein

'Change your thoughts and you change your world.' - Norman Vincent Peale

'The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.' - Alan Watts

'You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.' - A.A. Milne

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

'Resilience is the ability to attack while running away.' - Wes Fessler

'In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.' - Deepak Chopra

'Take a deep breath, it’s just a bad day, not a bad life.'

'Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.' - Alice Morse Earle

'Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.' - John Wooden

'The hardest walk is walking alone, but it’s also the walk that makes you the strongest.' - Unknown

'Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.' - Albert Einstein

'The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.' - Mulan

'Just like the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.' - Proverb

'Rivers know this: There is no hurry. We shall get there someday.' - A.A. Milne

'The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.' - Japanese Proverb

'Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.' - Lao Tzu