Top 200 Resilience Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Each moment of my life I was dreaming of how great I could be, and continued working hard. Each time I closed my eyes I could see me shining bright like a sun.”

— Kobe Bryant

52. “When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow.”

— Shauna Niequist

53. “Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

54. “Life does not always give you what you want, but if you look closely you will see that it gives what you need for growth.”

— Leon Brown

55. “Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.”

— Jim Valvano

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

— Khalil Gibran

57. “Just because you have failed, that doesn’t make you a failure. And just because you have lost, that doesn’t make you a loser.”

— Eric Thomas

58. “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

59. “The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.”

— Stephen Hawking

60. “There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.”

— Paulo Coelho

61. “The only people without problems are those in cemeteries. It is not what happens to us that separates failures from successes. It is how we perceive and what we do about what happens that makes the difference.”

— Tony Robbins

62. “There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don’t allow yourself to become one of them.”

— Ralph Marston

63. “Everything works out in the end. If it hasn’t worked out yet, then it’s not the end.”

— Tracy McMillan

64. “Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.”

— Les Brown

65. “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

— Michael Jordan

66. “Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power, let difficulties know that you too are difficult.”

— Abdul Kalam

67. “I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.”

— Maya Angelou

68. “Don’t stop when you are tired. Stop when you are done.”

— David Goggins

69. “The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

70. “While there’s life, there’s hope.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

71. “Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared.”

— Tupac Shakur

72. “When you can’t change the direction of the wind – adjust your sails.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

73. “We can always begin again.”

— Jack Kornfield

74. “You can’t always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response.”

— Tony Dungy

75. “Mental toughness and resilience fade if they aren’t used consistently. I say it all the time: you are either getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.”

— David Goggins

76. “No matter how bad it is, or how bad it gets, I’m going to make it.”

— Les Brown

77. “There’s nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up.”

— Muhammad Ali

78. “You never lose until you actually give up.”

— Mike Tyson

79. “Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.”

— Rick Riordan

80. “Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.”

— Robert H. Schuller

81. “Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.”

— Ernest Shackleton

82. “It’s not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.”

— Stephen R. Covey

83. “After a hurricane, comes a rainbow.”

— Katy Perry

84. “Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.”

— Winston Churchill

85. “No, I don’t ever give up. I’d have to be dead or completely incapacitated.”

— Elon Musk

86. “It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

87. “By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

88. “It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

89. “Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

90. “Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.”

— Napoleon Hill

91. “The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

92. “Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.”

— Smith Wigglesworth

93. “Tough times are inevitable in life and in business. But how you compose yourself during those times defines your spirit and will define your future.”

— Richard Branson

94. “I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

95. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

96. “The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.”

— Ryan Holiday

97. “Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.”

— Denis Waitley

98. “Like success, failure is many things to many people. With positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.”

— W. Clement Stone

99. “Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.”

— Ted Williams

100. “Fight and push harder for what you believe in, you’d be surprised, you are much stronger than you think.”

— Lady Gaga