Resilience Quotes

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Resilience Quotes

Explore meaningful resilience quotes that speak to real life. Drawn from great minds across time, this collection offers clarity, comfort and inspiration when you need it most.

"Getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me."

-- Steve Jobs

"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith."

-- Steve Jobs

"But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"The first and last thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Life is not fair; get used to it."

-- Bill Gates

"I think it's important to be persistent."

-- Elon Musk

"Starting a business is not for everyone... have a high pain threshold."

-- Elon Musk

"Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up."

-- Elon Musk

"Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best."

-- Mother Teresa

"What we need is to love without getting tired."

-- Mother Teresa

"In order to keep the lamp burning, you have to keep putting the oil in it."

-- Mother Teresa

"What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway."

-- Mother Teresa

"If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway."

-- Mother Teresa

"If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are."

-- Mother Teresa

"People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered; Forgive them anyway."

-- Mother Teresa

"Through difficult experiences, life sometimes becomes more meaningful."

-- Dalai Lama

"Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom."

-- Dalai Lama

"If your goal is noble, your commitment should not be contingent on your ability to attain it."

-- Dalai Lama

"Sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck."

-- Dalai Lama

"If your heart has peace, nothing can disturb you."

-- Dalai Lama

"Optimism leads to success; pessimism leads to defeat."

-- Dalai Lama

"Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility."

-- Dalai Lama

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Explore meaningful resilience quotes that speak to real life. Drawn from great minds across time, this collection offers clarity, comfort and inspiration when you need it most.

Some of the most celebrated resilience quotes come from Krishna, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, among many others featured on this page.

Popular resilience quotes include: "One who has control over the mind is tranquil in heat and cold, in pleasure and pain." -- Krishna Also: "Treating pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat alike, engage yourself in the battle." -- Krishna.

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