Top 200 Resilience Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.”

— Napoleon Hill

152. “Sometimes I don’t feel good, but when you get in the ring, you can’t say “oh, I feel bad, can we stop?””

— Manny Pacquiao

153. “With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.”

— Max Ehrmann

154. “You can’t always control the circumstances – only how you react to those circumstances; you can always control your attitude and your effort.”

— Jennie Finch

155. “Don’t cry to quit. Cry to keep going!”

— Eric Thomas

156. “Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

157. “For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

158. “Every time I rise up, I have confidence that I’m going to make it.”

— Stephen Curry

159. “Something very beautiful happens to people when their world’s fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.”

— Marianne Williamson

160. “I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”

— Booker T. Washington

161. “I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

162. “Give up trying to make me give up.”

— Masashi Kishimoto

163. “I can endure more pain than anyone you’ve met. That’s why I win, because I can endure more pain.”

— Steve Prefontaine

164. “You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.”

— Barack Obama

165. “Whatever life may send your way – make the best of it. Don’t waste your time and energy worrying about it. Instead, find a way to do something about it. Learn from it, adjust to it, be strong, be flexible and be your best in every situation.”

— Les Brown

166. “The reason it’s important to push hardest when you want to quit the most is because it helps you callous your mind. It’s the same reason why you have to do your best work when you are the least motivated.”

— David Goggins

167. “We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

168. “I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”

— Dr. Seuss

169. “Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.”

— Imam Ali

170. “You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”

— James C. Collins

171. “Don’t hope for better. Just be better. Be something better. Be more compassionate, more resilient, more humble, more disciplined.”

— Mark Manson

172. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

— Winston Churchill

173. “Fall down seven times, get up eight.”

— Japanese Proverb

174. “So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

175. “You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.”

— Bob Marley

176. “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”

— Francis of Assisi

177. “Recognize reality even when you don’t like it – especially when you don’t like it.”

— Charlie Munger

178. “Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.”

— Franz Kafka

179. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

180. “Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”

— Elon Musk

181. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

— Albert Einstein

182. “A setback only paves the way for a comeback.”

— Evander Holyfield

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

— Jeffrey Gitomer

184. “Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you’ve won.”

— Charlie Munger

185. “We remember, we rebuild, we come back stronger.”

— Barack Obama

186. “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”

— Steve Maraboli

187. “If you don’t keep learning, other people will pass you by. Temperament alone won’t do it – you need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.”

— Charlie Munger

188. “I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

189. “Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.”

— Seneca

190. “An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.”

— Goi Nasu

191. “You never fail until you stop trying.”

— Albert Einstein

192. “If you are going through hell, keep going.”

— Winston Churchill

193. “The best revenge is massive success.”

— Frank Sinatra

194. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

— Albert Einstein

195. “Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”

— Jim Rohn

196. “Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.”

— Michael Jordan

197. “A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.”

— Jack Dempsey

198. “A good half of the art of living is resilience.”

— Alain de Botton

199. “I can do all things through spite, which strengthens me.”

— A.J. Sherwood

200. “Light can devour the darkness but darkness cannot consume the light.”

— Ken Poirot