Inspiring quotes about resilience

"I'm inspired by people that are marginal. I'm excited by their resilience. " - Mira Nair

"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

"Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger." - Brad Henry

"Resilience is, of course, necessary for a warrior. But a lack of empathy isn't." - Phil Klay

"The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity." - Joshua Waitzkin

"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

"Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems." - Gever Tulley

"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

“I have a lot of stamina and I have a lot of resilience." - Hillary Clinton

"Human beings have enormous resilience." - Muhammad Yunus

"It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that stuff when you're young; your resilience is just terrific." - Harold Prince

"In football, as in politics, resilience pays off." - George Osborne

"I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory." - Elie Wiesel

"Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter." - Elizabeth Edwards

"A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back." - Kate Reardon

"I think professionally I admire people and the way they've handled their careers and being in the media. But the people that I used to inspire me and keep me going were my peers in Toronto - I would see the same girls going to audition after audition, and their resilience to do it again, and I found that inspiring." - Anna Silk

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

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela

"Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving; we get stronger and more resilient.” - Steve Maraboli

"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

"No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear."  - Greg Kincaid

"We will either find a way, or make one." - Anibal Barca