No one escapes pain, fear, and suffering. Yet from pain can come wisdom, from fear can come courage, from suffering can come strength.
The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.
Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
It’s not how hard you hit. It’s how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
The comeback is always stronger than the setback.
— Unknown
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
When something bad happens, you have three choices: You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or let it strengthen you.
— Unknown
The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.
It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop.
Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.
Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.
You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.
Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before.
It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever.
Resilience is the ability to attack while running away.
The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose.
Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain.
No matter how much it hurts now, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.
— Unknown
The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us but those who win battles we know nothing about.
— Unknown
The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems.
Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.
The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.
Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.
It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature.
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.
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.
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
A good half of the art of living is resilience.
No one escapes pain, fear, and suffering. Yet from pain can come wisdom, from fear can come courage, from suffering can come strength – if we have the virtue of resilience.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain.
Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.
The best way out is always through.
The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.
Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others.
Resilience is the ability to bounce back from adversity.
— Unknown
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Strength grows in the moments when you think you can’t go on but you keep going anyway.
— Unknown
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
No one escapes pain, fear, and suffering. Yet from pain can come wisdom, from fear can come courage, from suffering can come strength.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
On the other side of a storm is the strength that comes from having navigated through it. Raise your sail and begin.
Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.
We will either find a way or make one.
— Hannibal
Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up.
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’
Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
Sometimes resilience arrives in the moment you discover your own unshakeable goodness.
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.