100 Resilience Quotes to Give You Resolve
Are you facing tough times?
These resilience quotes will help you stay strong and keep going until you reach your goals.
Resilience is more than just bouncing back.
It’s about keeping up your efforts over a long period, no matter how hard things get. It’s about staying focused and determined, even when the going gets tough.
Throughout history, many great people have achieved amazing things by being resilient when everything seemed against them.
With that in mind, here are some of the best resilience quotes to inspire you to achieve your goals.
Our Best Resilience Quotes
“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” – Julie Andrews
“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” – Walter Elliot
“Perseverance, the secret of all triumphs.” – Victor Hugo
“Perseverance conquers nations; its attainments are beyond limit.” – Amie Smith
“We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.” – Helen Keller
“Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“It’s always too early to quit.” – Norman Vincent Peale
“There is no armor like perseverance.” – Sogyal Rinpoche
“You must keep at it; someday soon your perseverance will reap rewards.” – Domenico Mazza
“Ardent interest, focused practice, and perseverance are the pillars for the solid stone foundation of success.” – Lee David Daniels
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” – George S. Patton
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
Quotes about Resilience
“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo—far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” — Jodi Picoult
“Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” — Nelson Mandela
“Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up.” — Mary Holloway
“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” — Steve Maraboli
“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” — Robert Jordan
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Confucius
“Resilience is not about being able to bounce back like nothing has happened. Resilience is your consistent resistance to give up.” — Janna Cachola
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop.” — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill
“The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.” — Woodrow Wilson
“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before.” — Elizabeth Edwards
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” — Margaret Thatcher
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” — Robert H. Schuller
“Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems.” — Gever Tulley
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.'” — Mary Anne Radmacher
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” — C.S. Lewis
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” — Ernest Hemingway
“Resilience is the ability to attack while running away.” — Wes Fessler
“Perseverance conquers all things; it is the key to success. Keeping on is good but keeping on keeping on to the end wins the day, every time.” – S. E. Adkins
“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” – Newt Gingrich
“Patient effort, perseverance and hard work each day properly directed will surely bring success.” – Malcolm D. Lambournne
“Perseverance is a behavior, a purposeful action to pursue a goal or task despite obstacles.” – Laila Sanguras
“Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.” – Bob Riley
“Nothing in the world can replace perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost legendary. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.” – Calvin Coolidge
“A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.” – Gary Hamel
“Every time you fail and get back up, you practice perseverance, which is the key to life. Your strength comes in your ability to recover.” – Michelle Obama
“No matter what may be happening in your life, it is encouraging to learn how other people have persevered and found their silver linings.” – David Mezzapelle
“Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.” – Ambrose Bierce
“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” – John Quincy Adams
“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins – not through strength but by perseverance.” – Confucius
“It’s perseverance that’s the key. It’s persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.” – Lynn Davies
“Perseverance is the guide-post to success and achievement and the road to pleasure and happiness.” – Charles Francis Glass
“Part of life is understanding that real change and progress comes with dedicated perseverance but also realizing that challenges, obstacles and roadblocks will appear from time to time.” – Robert Rivers
“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.” – Samuel Johnson
“The secret to genius is not genetics but daily practice married with relentless perseverance.” – Robin Sharma
“A will finds a way.” – Orison Swett Marden
“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
“Perseverance speaks to a refusal to give up the pursuit of a goal despite attendant difficulties.” – Lisa Marie Stringer
“One of these conditions is perseverance, that is, the motivation to keep going forward with your plan because you believe in it, even when you face roadblocks and when results seem to be too far away.” – Gabriel Torres
“So, hope is a combination of setting goals, having the tenacity and perseverance to pursue them, and believing in our own abilities.” – Brené Brown
“There are none so blind as those who will not see and there are none so ignorant as those who don’t have the perseverance to learn.” – Ian Gibbs
“The affirmation of strong perseverance, of keeping at it, of continuous, undeviating effort, is bound to pay off ultimately if you have the inner compulsion to visualize and keep at it.” – Norman Vincent Peale
“Don’t worry about genius. Don’t worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination.” – Sir Thomas Treves
“You don’t need an easier life, but rather an attitude of perseverance.” – James Clear
“Perseverance is the one rule that will lead to the hilltops of life.” – Helena T. Doocey
“Success in life is a matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and perseverance.” – E. C. Dowden
“Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.” – Gillian Anderson
“The greatest recipe in life is the one which has more ingredients of perseverance and dedication within the mixture.” – B. C. Artworst
“Sometimes luck can be that driving force that catapults your life into a storm of success along with hard work, dedication and perseverance.” – Zak Frazer
“All the performances of human art at which we look with praise or wonder are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.” – Samuel Johnson
“The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“Keep the faith, don’t lose your perseverance and always trust your gut instinct.” – Paula Abdul
“Success at anything requires two vital ingredients: enthusiasm and perseverance. Both can be helped by the broad view that looks beyond temporary difficulties and disappointments to a great goal.” – Norman Vincent Peale
“The further the reward from the effort, the thinner the competition.” – Johnny Uzan
“Perseverance doesn’t always mean winning and losing. Perseverance means showing up and rising to the occasion and performing.” – Michael Chiesa
“Perseverance is another word for faith.” – Earl Nightingale
“Having perseverance is all about being able to bounce back and keep moving forward.” – Jason Scotts
“The three P’s: Practice, perseverance, and patience are the qualities you will need in order to become the author of your own story.” – Robin Roberts
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan
“The most essential factor is persistence – the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.” – James Whitcomb Riley
“Life is not easy for any of us. We must have perseverance and above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” – Marie Curie
“Football is like life; it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.” – Vince Lombardi
“Perseverance was forged in the fires of your own determination. Its powers are activated when we ignore the negativity and keep working towards our goals.” – Jake Smith
“Think about your capabilities, your strength, your perseverance, and your resilience. Give yourself a pat on the back.” – Kate Anderson
“Perseverance is the quality that enables weak men to become the equals of strong men.” – M. A. Dunn
“We can better enjoy the blessings we get from perseverance, as they have a higher value than things easily gotten, and we keep them longer and treasure them higher on account of the persevering effort we made to get them.” – Charles Francis Glass
“Perseverance is trying and trying, and trying again each day.” – F. M. O’Rourke, Let’s Persevere
“In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world, all rests on perseverance.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourself a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.” – Helen Keller
“The most useful form of patience is persistence. Patience implies waiting for things to improve on their own. Persistence implies keeping your head down and continuing to work when things take longer than you expect.” – James Clear
“Being genuinely happy is something that takes practice, perseverance, and patience.” – Dr. Lauren Cunning, Hardwiring Happiness
“A lot of people have their big dreams and get knocked down and don’t have things go their way. And you never give up hope, and you really just hold on to it. Hard work and perseverance. You just keep getting up and getting up, and then you get that breakthrough.” – Robert Kraft
“One day someone is going to come to you and ask how you did it. Because you were creative, because you persevered, because you persisted through the resistance, you will be able to hold your chin up and help someone else overcome.”
“Perseverance is the bridge that connects dreams to reality. It’s the grit that transforms intentions into achievements.”
“Every setback is a setup for a comeback; each failure teaches resilience and fortitude.”
“It’s not about how many times you fall, but how many times you rise after falling.”
“Success isn’t just about the destination; it’s about the journey of persistence and unwavering faith.”
“Embrace challenges as opportunities to grow stronger and more determined in your pursuits.”
“Perseverance is the fuel that drives us to overcome adversity and achieve greatness.”
“True strength lies in the ability to keep pushing forward, even when the path is challenging.”
“Your tenacity will pave the way for success; each step taken is a testament to your resilience.”
“Let every obstacle serve as a lesson that fortifies your resolve and sharpens your focus.”
“Success is not merely an end goal, but a journey marked by our relentless pursuit.”
“Each challenge you face is an opportunity to learn and grow; persistence transforms trials into triumphs.”
