Resilience quotes and words of wisdom on resilience to help you keep you cultivate and maintain a calm body, compassionate heart, and steady mind during difficult times. Resilience is the capacity to recover from difficult times and to face future difficulty with a greater sense of ease. Here’s to facing the hard days with greater ease and resilience.
“If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.” ― Shane Koyczan
“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
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” ― Joseph Campbell
My barn having burned down, I can now see the moon.”― Mizuta Masahide (17th century Japanese poet and samurai)
“Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another.” ― Angela Duckworth
“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”
― Maya Angelou
“It isn’t suffering that leads to hopelessness. It’s suffering you think you can’t control.” ― Angela Duckworth
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”― Margaret Thatcher
“Grief and resilience live together.” ― Michelle Obama, Becoming
“Well okay, that didn’t go so well, but I guess I will just carry on.’ ” ― Angela Duckworth
“The remedy is not to suppress negative experiences; when they happen, they happen. Rather, it is to foster positive experiences—and in particular, to take them in so they become a permanent part of you.” ― Rick Hanson
“Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.”― Robert F. Kennedy
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” ― Japanese Proverb
“Even if you, like me, have done things worthy of remorse, they do not wipe out your good qualities; you are still a fundamentally good person.” ― Rick Hanson
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
― Helen Keller
“When we learn how to become resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautifully broad spectrum of the human experience.” ― Jaeda Dewalt
“We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.”― Stephen Covey
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”― Oprah Winfrey
“It helps to remember that kindness is its own reward, that consequences often come to others without you needing to bring justice to them yourself, and that you can be assertive without falling into ill will.” ― Rick Hanson
“Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up.” ― Mary Holloway
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”― Friedrich Nietzsche
“Love and hate: they live and tumble together in every heart, like wolf cubs tussling in a cave. There is no killing the wolf of hate; the aversion in such an attempt would actually create what you’re trying to destroy. But you can watch that wolf carefully, keep it tethered, and limit its alarm, righteousness, grievances, resentments, contempt, and prejudice. Meanwhile, keep nourishing and encouraging the wolf of love.” ― Rick Hanson
Resilience quotes can inspire us to keep moving forward in our lives. Perhaps you can choose your favorite of these resilience quotes, write it in your journal, and write about how the words can inspire you to become more resilient.
If you’re looking for more words to inspire you, check out my post on Poems About Resilience as an Offering of Hope.