Top 130 Resilience Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Resilience Quotes from famous people such as Naomi Wolf, Eddie the Eagle, James G. Stavridis, Steven Pressfield, Kevin Rudd, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: th

Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
Naomi Wolf
Resilience can go an awful long way.
Eddie the Eagle
Sleep is a key part of the requirements for resilience and good decision-making.
James G. Stavridis
No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families.
Steven Pressfield
Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.
Kevin Rudd
It’s one thing to show your love for someone when everything is going fine and life is smooth. But when the ‘in sickness and in health’ part kicks in and sickness does enter your lives, you’re tested. Your resilience is tested.
Patti Davis
One thing, the very first time I got out of the seat, after Resilience was safely in orbit and I looked out the window and saw the Earth from 250 miles up, I will never forget that moment.
Victor J. Glover
There are so many kids in this country growing up in poverty, facing very, very hard challenges… We need resilience for all of them.
Sheryl Sandberg
If you donate to the mainland, it’s not as simple as giving money. You need a lot of psychological resilience.
Ronnie Chan
Anyone who has lived in an area with high unemployment knows how it erodes social bonds, lowers the resilience of the unemployed and their families, and damages the prospects of the next generation.
Sharan Burrow
I still enjoy playing some of those early Straits songs, and I’m proud of what we did, and certainly we had some great times. It’s what we all wanted when we were kids. But you’ve got to have the resilience to ride that thing, to pick up that ball and run with it. Because you will keep picking it up and keep running.
Mark Knopfler
When it’s only you that you can rely on, you’re surprised at the resilience you have.
Paul Dini
The reason I’m a Nixonite is because of his indestructibility and resilience. He never quit.
Roger Stone
Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.
Janine Benyus
Once-in-a-generation weather events are now becoming a regular occurrence. Whether it be public safety power shutoffs or electric system failures due to extreme weather events, we must invest in grid resilience and modernization in order to keep the power on in impacted communities.
Alex Padilla
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before.
Elizabeth Edwards
Accounts of eating Christmas sweet potatoes baked in ashes and jackrabbit stewed with white flour dumplings are testaments to pioneer resilience and pleasure – and they help inspire my own best scratch cooking.
Isabel Gillies
I realized that I’m a soft person. I think I’m sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I’m quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.
Rachael Taylor
I’ve always said we need to build resilience locally.
Eric Garcetti
Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
Naomi Wolf
Working with WWE on our many community outreach programs like Special Olympics and Connor’s Cure gives me the most inspiring stories to tell about human resilience.
Natalya Neidhart
People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they’re right.
David Brudnoy
Hillbillies learn from an early age to deal with uncomfortable truths by avoiding them or by pretending better truths exist. This tendency might make for psychological resilience, but it also makes it hard for Appalachians to look at themselves honestly.
J. D. Vance
Khushi is very sensitive but not very expressive. She is a little pricey as a person. She can be a little bit of a bully. But, there’s strength and resilience in my sister that is magnanimous but it is silent.
Janhvi Kapoor
People inspire me. Every day, I meet amazing individuals in the field. When I see a mother who has walked for three weeks to come to a MSF clinic, with two kids on her back and her belongings on her head, facing intimidation and physical abuse on her way, I am inspired by her resilience – her desire for life.
Joanne Liu
As my kids grow up, I think a lot about the lessons and values I want to impart to them. More than any particular skill or even financial support, I believe perseverance and resilience will serve them best, regardless of what curveball life inevitably throws them.
Sal Khan
I like Pride festival because we get to show up and show out. Remind people we have resilience and rainbows.
Willam Belli
I grew up a skinny kid with a funny last name and coke bottle glasses, so I experienced my fair share of bullies. But I learned, with the help of humor and resilience, to never give up.
John Hickenlooper
The SEALs were very good in teaching me hard skills – that means resilience, pushing past your mental and physical boundaries; and having an enormously high threshold for pain.
Jonny Kim
Nothing is being done of any real significance. Our demand is the government must tell the truth about the crisis we’re in. And that includes working with communities to build resilience… We want to go to net carbon zero emissions by 2015 and reduce our consumption levels.
Gail Bradbrook
My childhood gave me resilience – and there’s little that can surprise me in life.
Natalia Vodianova
In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-effica

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
It is also our responsibility to fulfill our promises to our veterans, to help those in need, and to support their strength and resilience. Ensuring that we take care of them and their families is a responsibility entrusted to all of us.
Cindy Hyde-Smith
Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.
Gever Tulley
I can’t tell you the number of times I was one of the first people at the arenas or at TV, constantly trying to better myself. I can honestly say that my hard work paid off. My resilience paid off. My persistence paid off.
Michelle McCool
I do believe there’s a heaven. I do believe that God has given me the resilience and the survival skills to withstand the chiffon trenches.
Andre Leon Talley
Pearl Harbor remains a symbol of American resilience and resolve, and we pray for all those that have served and continue to serve in our military. May we never forget their bravery and sacrifice.
Jim Justice
We need to build resilience together, rooted in religion, rooted in schools, rooted in our health care institutions.
Sheryl Sandberg
If you’ve ever had anyone in your life who has been struggling with something, struggling with addiction or struggling with anything, and it’s about the resilience of love and how much you’re willing to struggle with somebody to preserve your relationship and to try to preserve them as a person.
Sarah Gadon
Entrepreneurship isn’t for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there are people depending on them, I think that their creativity, their resilience, their spirit, embody what’s best about entrepreneurship.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
My student days in PSG saw three Prime Ministers, two wars, taught us courage, resilience, leadership and optimism.
Shiv Nadar
Although most of us don’t spend time thinking about our thoughts, increasing your awareness of your thinking habits proves useful in building resilience.
Amy Morin
All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families.
Steven Pressfield
I think one in five Americans has a disability of some sort. That’s 20% of the population, and yet we rarely ever see people with disabilities on-screen, and their stories and their resilience and their zest for life and their humor and their humanity.
Hong Chau
There will always be obstacles and challenges that stand in your way. Building mental strength will help you develop resilience to those potential hazards so you can continue on your journey to success.
Amy Morin
Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.
Brad Henry
I always tell up-and-coming DJs you have to really love what you do and find that interest to drive you. It requires so much attention to detail, and it takes up a lot of your time. You hear a song, and there are so many little pieces that make that song work. It requires a lot of patience, diligence and resilience.
Steve Aoki
My mum thinks I get my determination and resilience from my dad. I think it comes mostly from her.
Jonny Bairstow
Clinton’s resilience became sort of the secret weapon of the campaign. He was never going to just give up and get out.
Dee Dee Myers
Resilience is distinct from mere survival, and more than mere endurance. Resilience is often endurance with direction.
Eric Greitens
Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.
Valerie Jarrett
I believe resilience is the most useful human quality, and I’ve sought to cultivate it, but in 2019 I felt my resolve begin to weaken at times as it has never done before.
George Monbiot
When it comes to our collective health, how we deal with the multiple crises and problems around us also depends on the power of context – in other words, our resilience.
Arianna Huffington