Top 200 Resilience Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.”

— Thomas Paine

102. “I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”

— Abraham Lincoln

103. “Don’t get angry; get better.”

— Tony DiCicco

104. “Life is not what it’s supposed to be. It’s what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.”

— Virginia Satir

105. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

— Nelson Mandela

106. “There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of self-mastery. From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher.”

— Robin S. Sharma

107. “Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.”

— Oprah Winfrey

108. “Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.”

— H. Ross Perot

109. “I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”

— John D. Rockefeller

110. “You can start with nothing. And out of nothing, and out of no way, a way will be made.”

— Michael Beckwith

111. “So change your mindset. Change how you see pain. I want you to welcome it!”

— Eric Thomas

112. “People will hurt you. But don’t use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones.”

— Lecrae

113. “You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly.”

— Rumi

114. “I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.”

— Serena Williams

115. “It’s always too early to quit.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

116. “It’s time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.”

— Marcus Aurelius

117. “In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

118. “Rest at the end, not in the middle.”

— Kobe Bryant

119. “Don’t allow your past or present condition to control you. It’s just a process that you’re going through to get you to the next level.”

— T.D. Jakes

120. “There is no joy for the one who does not bear sadness, there is no sweetness for the one who does not have patience, there is no delight for the one who does not suffer, and there is no relaxation for the one who does not endure fatigue.”

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

121. “Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.”

— Epictetus

122. “Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, but you’ve actually been planted.”

— Christine Caine

123. “The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”

— Ben Okri

124. “If you give it to God, He transforms your test into a testimony, your mess into a message, and your misery into a ministry.”

— Rick Warren

125. “Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest.”

— Daisaku Ikeda

126. “Don’t quit. You’re already in pain. You’re already hurt. Get a reward from it!”

— Eric Thomas

127. “I’m like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.”

— Bess Myerson

128. “We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.”

— Joyce Meyer

129. “Hope does not disappoint.”

— Paul the Apostle

130. “I dare you to take a little pain. I dare you!”

— Eric Thomas

131. “Ad astra per aspera. Translated: “to the stars through difficulties”.”

— John James Ingalls

132. “Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.”

— Frederick Buechner

133. “These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”

— Thomas Paine

134. “Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.”

— Og Mandino

135. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

— Maya Angelou

136. “Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”

— Jacob August Riis

137. “Just because you are struggling does NOT mean you are failing. Every great success requires some kind of struggle to get there.”

— Nicky Gumbel

138. “You can kill the dreamer, but you can’t kill the dream.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

139. “If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.”

— Dale Carnegie

140. “Rome was not built in a day. Opposition will come your way. But the harder the battle you see, it’s the sweeter the victory.”

— Jimmy Cliff

141. “I do not believe this darkness will endure.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

142. “To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.”

— Howard Zinn

143. “When people say you can’t do it – that it’s impossible – never lose hope. Just because they couldn’t doesn’t mean you can’t.”

— David Copperfield

144. “What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

145. “If I fail, I try again, and again, and again.”

— Nick Vujicic

146. “Come hell or high water you will never take me back to the place I was before. I have been through too much to let life whoop me again. My faith is stronger than it’s ever been, my mind is more tenacious than it’s ever been, my soul is more absolute.”

— T.D. Jakes

147. “Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.”

— William Arthur Ward

148. “Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

149. “Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities – always see them, for they’re always there.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

150. “If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.”

— Nhat Hanh