Resilience Quotes

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.

- Aisha Tyler

He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.

- Alan K. Simpson

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

- Albert Bandura

Building a successful business requires a combination of human capital, financial resources, market opportunity, persistence, community support, and even luck.

- Andrew Yang

I've been pretty good about keeping my nose to the grindstone. I feel like I won a lot of matches from hard work and persistence, even maybe when I had better options as far as shot-making.

- Andy Roddick

I think professionally I admire people and the way they've handled their careers and being in the media. But the people that I used to inspire me and keep me going were my peers in Toronto - I would see the same girls going to audition after audition, and their resilience to do it again, and I found that inspiring.

- Anna Silk

Persistence pushes me to be bold and seek out the opportunities I've wanted. It starts by envisioning what you want, no matter how big or small, and believing that you can achieve it.

- Belinda Johnson

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

- Benjamin Franklin

I don't know if I discovered I had any talent. It was dogged persistence. I had to have the music.

- Bob Weir

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.

- Brad Henry

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

- Brooke Shields

I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.

- Caprice Bourret

Persistence and endurance will make you omnipotent.

- Casey Neistat

Many people in San Francisco know me, and they know my persistence.

- Cindy Sheehan

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

- Dale Carnegie

Developing a diet that is healthful, balanced, and appropriate for your particular caloric needs is easy enough and is absolutely critical to establishing a healthful lifestyle that incorporates proper nutrition, adequate fitness, and mental resilience.

- Daphne Oz

'A Child Called It' was a story about resilience, it was never about boo hoo hoo, it was about a kid that didn't quit.

- Dave Pelzer

My message has always been about resilience.

- Dave Pelzer

Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.

- David A. Bednar

Obviously, resilience matters. I was no stranger to adversity, but it's different when it's personal. Not something I would recommend.

- David Petraeus

I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.

- David Steinberg

Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.

- Edgar Wright

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

- Elizabeth Edwards

You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.

- Elizabeth Edwards

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.

- Elizabeth Edwards

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

- Elizabeth Edwards

I have an incredible confidence in the resilience of the human spirit and the creative ability of the Holy Spirit. So, if you can get people asking the right questions, it really will start moving in the right direction.

- Erwin McManus

I've always wanted, notionally, to be a mother. And I was certain I would be, because everyone I know, gay or straight, married or single, rich or not so much, who truly wants to have a child figures out a way, some way, to have one - whether through adoption, fostering, surrogacy, fertility, accident, or persistence.

- Faith Salie

Meaningful innovation can be an important catalyst in encouraging resilience in seniors, keeping them independent and engaged.

- Frans van Houten

Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.

- Gever Tulley

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

- Herbert Kaufman

I have a lot of stamina and I have a lot of resilience.

- Hillary Clinton

The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.

- Ian Botham

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

- Jamais Cascio

Quantity and persistence will get you the outcomes you need.

- James Altucher

I am extremely interested in how people negotiate catastrophe, not because I'm morbidly interested in it but because I'm interested in the secret of resilience; that's what I'm always exploring in the stories and the novels.

- Janette Turner Hospital

Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence.

- Jay Duplass

Persistence pays off.

- Jeffrey Dean Morgan

The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying.

- Jennifer Weiner

The elections that have taken place in these countries are a reflection of the lure of Democracy, and the resilience of our men and women in uniform who helped bring freedom to many who never knew what the word truly meant.

- Jim Sensenbrenner

We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.

- Joan Halifax

When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.

- John Bates Clark

I think I'm seen as trustworthy. I'm seen as having determination and persistence, and I'm seen as having a capacity to reach achievable answers to difficult issues.

- John Howard

You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and I will not be a professional victim, you know. Sorry!

- John Lydon

The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.

- Joshua Waitzkin

I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.

- Kara Swisher

A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.

- Kate Reardon

I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering.

- Kay Redfield Jamison

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.

- Kevin Rudd

When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.

- Kiana Tom

Above all, cancer is a spiritual practice that teaches me about faith and resilience.

- Kris Carr

What I always liked best about myself was my resilience, especially in this business with all the 'no's,' the doors closed in my face.

- LaChanze

Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.

- Laura Lippman

It's our privilege to work with College Track students as they chart their course toward a college degree - they bring persistence, creativity, and extraordinary discipline throughout their academic journey.

- Laurene Powell Jobs

Effective networking isn't a result of luck - it requires hard work and persistence.

- Lewis Howes

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

- Lewis Thomas

I still enjoy playing some of those early Straits songs, and I'm proud of what we did, and certainly we had some great times. It's what we all wanted when we were kids. But you've got to have the resilience to ride that thing, to pick up that ball and run with it. Because you will keep picking it up and keep running.

- Mark Knopfler

As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal.

- Michelle Malkin

Human beings have enormous resilience.

- Muhammad Yunus

The Keynesian prescription for unemployment rests on the persistence of a 'money illusion' among workers, i.e., on the belief that while, through unions and government, they will keep money wage rates from falling, they will also accept a fall in real wage rates via higher prices.

- Murray Rothbard

I speak for all Malaysians in expressing my admiration for the Queen and the grace, poise and selflessness with which she has carried out her duties during her long reign. She represents the very best of British traits: dignity, resilience and hard work.

- Najib Razak

Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.

- Naomi Wolf

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

- Napoleon Hill

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

- Napoleon Hill

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

- Napoleon Hill

My childhood gave me resilience - and there's little that can surprise me in life.

- Natalia Vodianova

Persistence is incredibly important. Persistence proves to the person you're trying to reach that you're passionate about something, that you really want something.

- Norah O'Donnell

You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.

- Octavia Butler

The big talent is persistence.

- Octavia E. Butler

I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.

- Oscar Isaac

When it's only you that you can rely on, you're surprised at the resilience you have.

- Paul Dini

Resilience is, of course, necessary for a warrior. But a lack of empathy isn't.

- Phil Klay

I think I needed the resilience of approaching my late 30s to come to terms with the resilience I required to learn to sing.

- Philip Selway

Failing well is a skill. Letting girls do it gives them critical practice coping with a negative experience. It also gives them the opportunity to develop a kind of confidence and resilience that can only be forged in times of challenge.

- Rachel Simmons

I run skills-building programs focused on healthy risk taking, failure resilience, and self-care for undergraduates around the country.

- Rachel Simmons

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

- Ralph Bunche

I think there is definitely a message behind Cyborg that is needed for people to hear and what he represents and the resilience of the human spirit. I hope it means as much to people watching it as it meant to me to do it.

- Ray Fisher

Develop resilience and be brave. There are days when it is very discouraging. You have to develop personal resilience to environmental things that come along. If you let every single environmental challenge knock you off your game, it's going to be very, very hard.

- Renee James

Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.

- Richard Ford

The reason I'm a Nixonite is because of his indestructibility and resilience. He never quit.

- Roger Stone

The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.

- Scott Turow

Smart vacations lead to greater happiness and energy at work and, therefore, greater productivity, intelligence, and resilience.

- Shawn Achor

I think there are things that we can all do to build resilience in ourselves, but also to build resilience in each other.

- Sheryl Sandberg

I think we build resilience to prepare for whatever adversity we'll face. And we all face some adversity - we're all living some form of Option B.

- Sheryl Sandberg

There are so many kids in this country growing up in poverty, facing very, very hard challenges... We need resilience for all of them.

- Sheryl Sandberg

We need to build resilience together, rooted in religion, rooted in schools, rooted in our health care institutions.

- Sheryl Sandberg

My student days in PSG saw three Prime Ministers, two wars, taught us courage, resilience, leadership and optimism.

- Shiv Nadar

Public, noncommercial broadcasting is also giving kids social-emotional skills like persistence and self-control that are fundamental to success in school, not to mention in the military, the institution where I spent most of my career.

- Stanley A. McChrystal

All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families.

- Steven Pressfield

No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families.

- Steven Pressfield

I was brought up on a farm, and I've learned that every opportunity that I've had in my life has come from hard work and persistence.

- Susan Bysiewicz

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

- Walter Murch

In life, an abundance of confidence gives us higher motivation, persistence, and optimism and can allow us to accomplish things we otherwise might not have undertaken.

- Whitney Tilson

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

- Woody Hayes

I demand a lot from myself and reflect this attitude upon others: I consider it to be an important quality for a leader. I also think it is impossible to achieve success without persistence.

- Yelena Baturina

My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

- Zosia Mamet