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With everything going on in our world right now, it is critical that we maintain our resilience. We must undertake to remain strong, positive, and solution-oriented in the face of adversity. So here are 36 of the best quotes to help improve your resilience and overcome obstacles.

36 quotes for resilience

Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.

Steve Maraboli

Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.

– Angela Duckworth

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

– Robert Jordan

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

– Jodi Picoult

My barn having burned down, I can now see the moon.

– Mizuta Masahide

You must bear losses like a soldier, the voice told me, bravely and without complaint, and just when the day seems lost, grab your shield for another stand, another thrust forward. That is the juncture that separates heroes from the merely strong.

– Margaret George

She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.

– Elizabeth Edwards

On the other side of a storm is the strength that comes from having navigated through it. Raise your sail and begin.

– Gregory S. Williams

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

– Helen Keller

Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.

– Yasmin Mogahed

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

Like tiny seeds with potent power to push through tough ground and become mighty trees, we hold innate reserves of unimaginable strength. We are resilient.

– Catherine DeVrye

Successful people demonstrate their resilience through their dedication to making progress every day, even if that progress is marginal.

– Jonathan Mills

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

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

Definitions have evolved over time but fundamentally resilience is understood as referring to positive adaptation, or the ability to maintain or regain mental health, despite experiencing adversity.

– Helen Herrman

Resilience has been described as the capacity for positive outcomes despite challenging or threatening circumstances.

– Byron Egeland

Resilience arises out of a belief in one’s own self-efficacy, the ability to deal with change, and use of a repertoire of problem-solving skills.

– Brigid Gillespie

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

Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living.

– José N. Harris

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

– Kahlil Gibran

They remind me that the damage life has inflicted on me has, in many places, left me stronger and more resilient. What hurt me in the past has actually made me better equipped to face the present.

– Steve Goodier

“It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.

– Bram Stoker

No matter how you define success, you will need to be resilient, empowered, authentic, and limber to get there.

– Joanie Connell

There are two kinds of strength. Power and the ability to wield it is obvious, but a resilience, the ability to resist power, is the other.

– Raymond E. Feist

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

– Helen Keller

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

– Theodore Roosevelt

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.  When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is a strength.

– Arnold Schwarzenegger

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

– Thomas Edison

Sometimes carrying on, just carrying on, is a superhuman achievement.

– Albert Camus

Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.

– Jamais Cascio

Remember an arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward; so when you feel like life is dragging you down with difficulties, it simply means that it’s going to launch you to something great. So just focus and keep aiming.

– Anonymous

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

If you are lucky enough to never experience any sort of adversity, we won’t know how resilient you are. It’s only when you’re faced with obstacles, stress, and other environmental threats that resilience, or the lack of it, emerges: Do you succumb or do you surmount?

– Maria Konnikova

Conclusion

To conclude, it is important that we remain resilient, especially in light of what the entire world is experiencing right now.

Despite the fact that it will be doubly difficult, we must maintain our positive attitude and courage. We must also develop an unbreakable spirit and persevere in the face of adversity. It is critical that we learn to sway with the wind and adjust our sails while never losing sight of our goals.

Staying resilient means believing that success is attainable; all you have to do is push through the obstacles and you will triumph.

Please share your thoughts or ideas about the 36 Best Quotes To Improve Your Resilience in the comments below. And if you liked this article, you might be interested as well in these articles:

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