Quotes about resilience

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Until death, all defeat is psychological.

The greatest skill you can learn is to stay in a good mood when there are 100s of reasons not to.

May the calm in you win over the chaos around you.

What does not kill me makes me stronger.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

It is best to endure what you cannot change.

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

The superior man has neither anxiety nor fear. When internal examination discovers nothing wrong, what is there to be anxious about, what is there to fear?

Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world—and never will.

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long if you know how to use it.

The desert grows: woe to him in whom deserts hide.

We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we do not believe, and cannot disengage ourselves from what we condemn.

Things are not so painful and difficult in themselves, but our weakness and cowardice make them so.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death.

There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life.

An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Sometimes it is an act of bravery even to live.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is to live dangerously!

The lion who breaks the enemy’s ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

Even though you’re not equipped, keep searching: equipment isn’t necessary on the way to the Lord.

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Only after winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails gives him ample opportunity to add a deeper meaning to his life.

Stars can't shine without darkness.

It's okay to rebuild slower than you broke down.

The comeback is always stronger than the setback.

Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is keep going.

The strongest of all warriors are these two: Time and Patience.

Every flower must grow through dirt.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

The one who falls and gets up is so much stronger than one who never fell.

When people throw stones at you, don’t throw them back. Collect them all and build an empire.

Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson afterward.

Fear has two meanings: Forget Everything And Run, or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

"Hope" is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly.

The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

When one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.

When they go low, we go high.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue that springs from force of character.

Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.