Quotes About Resilience In Hard Times

Resilience is the ability to bounce back from difficult situations and keep moving forward. During hard times, we can turn to the wise words of others to find inspiration and strength. Here are 99 powerful quotes about resilience in hard times:

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

2. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” -Maya Angelou

4. “Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before.” -Elizabeth Edwards

5. “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” -Maya Angelou

6. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” -Robert H. Schuller

7. “Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” -Nelson Mandela

8. “The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” -Jodi Picoult

9. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” -Thomas Edison

10. “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe

11. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” -Martin Luther King Jr.

12. “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” -Kenji Miyazawa

13. “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” -Rosa Parks

14. “No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.” -Buddha

15. “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” -Louisa May Alcott

16. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” -Maya Angelou

17. “It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” -Sir Edmund Hillary

18. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” -Martin Luther King Jr.

19. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” -Theodore Roosevelt

20. “The only way out is through.” -Robert Frost

21. “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

22. “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” -Lou Holtz

23. “The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us, but those who win battles we know nothing about.” -Anonymous

24. “You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.” -Brian Tracy

25. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” -Margaret Thatcher

26. “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” -Thomas Paine

27. “Fall down seven times, stand up eight.” -Japanese Proverb

28. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” -Zig Ziglar

29. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” -Steve Jobs

30. “You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.” -Wayne Dyer

31. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” -Abraham Lincoln

32. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” -Wayne Gretzky

33. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston Churchill

34. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” -Confucius

35. “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” -H.G. Wells

36. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” -Vince Lombardi

37. “Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got this.” -Chantal Sutherland

38. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” -Arthur Ashe

39. “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” -Charles R. Swindoll

40. “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” -Vince Lombardi

41. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” -Joshua J. Marine

42. “The best way out is always through.” -Robert Frost

43. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt

44. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” -Sam Levenson

45. “Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got this.” -Chantal Sutherland

46. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” -Henry Ford

47. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” -Peter Drucker

48. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” -Steve Jobs

49. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” -Vidal Sassoon

50. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” -Christian D. Larson

51. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” -Albert Schweitzer

52. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” -Jimmy Dean

53. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” -Maya Angelou

54. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt

55. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” -Winston S. Churchill

56. “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” -Henry Ford

57. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” -Vince Lombardi

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

59. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” -Winston Churchill

60. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” -Eleanor Roosevelt