30+ Resilience Quotes and Resilient Quotes

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Resilience and being resilient means bouncing back from the hard times and staying positive and happy despite what happens. Here are 30+ resilience quotes and inspirational quotes about being resilient in the face of adversity.

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Resilience Quotes | Inspirational Quotes About Resilience

After all, it’s what our whole blog was named after. 😉 To mean, being resilient means getting back up if you’re knocked down and the common saying of “Fall down seven times, stand up eight.”

If you’re resilient, it doesn’t matter what happens TO you in life, because you’re just going to keep persevering.

It’s making the decision that no matter what happens, you’re going to keep on keeping on and never give up.

So, here some resilient quotes from Resilient!

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30+ Inspirational Resilience Quotes and Resilient Quotes

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

“You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces – my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.” – Elizabeth Edwards

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” – Kahlil Gibran

“And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently.
And the people healed. And, in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal.
And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed.” – Kitty O’Meara, And the People Stayed Home

“Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.” – Yasmin Mogahed

“It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.” – Bram Stoker

“Everyone needs resilience, because one thing is certain, life includes adversities.” – Karen Reivich

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

“When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realize that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.” – A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

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

“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

“Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I’m pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.” – Brooke Shields

“Human beings have enormous resilience.” – Muhammad Yunus

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“We will either find a way, or make one.” – Hannibal

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

“Truth be told, you will never really know just how strong and adamant you are unless adversity strikes. Then you learn courage, you build resilience, you learn to persevere, you build character.” – T. Whitmore

“Loving ourselves points us to capacities of resilience, compassion, and understanding within that are simply part of being alive.” – Sharon Salzberg

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

“In the wake of the most crushing blows, people can find greater strength and deeper meaning. I also believe that it is possible to experience pre-traumatic growth, that you don’t have to experience tragedy to build your resilience for whatever lies ahead.” – Sheryl Sandberg

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

“Finding things for which one can be grateful helps make the memory of a difficult experience less intrusive. Other research has found a connection between the kind of positive emotions created by gratitude and resilience. Grateful people are better able to weather life’s storms.” – Deborah Norville

“Think about your capabilities, your strength, your perseverance, and your resilience. Give yourself a pat on the back.” – Kate Anderson

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

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

“It’s crazy, how similar we are. Here’s both of us, working through our stuff, trying to make something positive out of something really bad.” – Jenny Han

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“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

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“In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.” – Albert Bandura

“Resilience is a precious skill. People who have it tend to also have three underlying advantages: a believe that they can influence life events; a tendency to find meaningful purpose in life’s turmoil; and a conviction that they can learn from both positive and negative experiences.” – Amanda Ripley

“To be rendered powerless does not destroy your humanity. Your resilience is your humanity. The only people who lose their humanity are those who believe they have the right to render another human being powerless. They are the weak. To yield and not break, that is incredible strength.” – Hannah Gadsby

“The key to life is resilience… We will always be knocked down. It’s the getting up that counts.” – Dominique Browning

“In the face of adversity, we have a choice. We can be bitter, or we can be better. Those words are my North Star.” – Caryn Sullivan

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