37 Quotes About Inner Strength and Resilience

Going deeper will help you to unveil your inner strength. These quotes about inner strength and resilience will encourage you to move past the standard and seek greater success.

“A good school teaches you resilience – that ability to bounce back.”

“A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.”

“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.”

“Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.”

“As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.”

“Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.”

“He’s a million rubber bands in his resilience.”

“Human beings have enormous resilience.”

“I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.”

“I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.”

“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.”

“Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things – of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires.”

“It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.”

“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.”

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

“My childhood gave me resilience – and there’s little that can surprise me in life.”

“My husband’s a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can’t raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.”

“No matter what kind of challenges or difficulties or painful situations you go through in your life, we all have something deep within us that we can reach down and find the inner strength to get through them.”

“Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Resilience is, of course, necessary for a warrior. But a lack of empathy isn’t.”

“Resilience isn’t a single skill. It’s a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive.”

“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on”

“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.”

“There is no problem that doesn’t have some underlying need for more optimism, stamina, resilience and collaboration. And games are, I believe, the best platform we have for providing that.”

“While positive mental states may be associated with less stress and more resilience to infection, positive well-being might also be accompanied by a healthy lifestyle.”

“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

“You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.”

“You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, ‘I’m proud of what I am and who I am.”

Finding inner strength can be more difficult than you expect. Seeing the right pathway will bring you the encouragement you need to recover.