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Quotes about resilience

Words on resilience — gathered from across the ages, set on the page.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
— Robert Frost
Until death, all defeat is psychological.
— Anonymous
The greatest skill you can learn is to stay in a good mood when there are 100s of reasons not to.
— Anonymous
May the calm in you win over the chaos around you.
— Anonymous
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.
— Lao Tzu
It is best to endure what you cannot change.
— Seneca
As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.
— Marcus Aurelius
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?
— Confucius
Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world—and never will.
— Mark Twain
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.
— Seneca
The desert grows: woe to him in whom deserts hide.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
— Michel de Montaigne
Things are not so painful and difficult in themselves, but our weakness and cowardice make them so.
— Michel de Montaigne
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
— Leo Tolstoy