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Resilient Quotations


We offer the following quotations as potential sources of inspiration and food-for-thought. If you have a quote on some aspect of resilience that you would like to share with others, please let us know via our Contact Us form.


  • Finding the Way Back Home

    If the light is in your heart, you will find your way home.
    —Rumi

  • All Our Wisdom

    All our wisdom is stored in the trees.
    —Santosh Kalwar

  • The Inner Core

    The “soul” is that still point at the heart of every person, that deepest center, that point of encounter with the transcendent yet incarnate mystery of God. When the soul is healthy, it is in a living relationship with God; it is firmly rooted in the soil of meaning and is the deepest center of the person.
    —Bishop Robert Barron, Lenten Gospel Reflection (3/24/2020)

  • Talent and Effort

    As much as talent counts, effort counts twice.
    —Angela Duckworth

  • Flexibility Like Bamboo

    The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.
    —Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper

  • Rain Dance

    Life is not about waiting for the rain to stop. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.
    —Deborah Fishman, Life is in the Transitions

  • Heartstrings

    Heartstrings hold tighter than the roots of a live oak tree holdin’ through tornado winds …
    —Alison Krauss, Heartstrings

  • You’ve Got a Friend

    There’s nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.
    —Bob Ross

  • Survival

    It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change.
    —Charles Darwin

  • Flexible Strength

    The bamboo that bends in stronger than the oak that resists.
    —Japanese Proverb

  • Inventing hope …

    Hope is invented every day.
    —James Baldwin

  • Art of Living x ½

    A good half of the art of living is resilience.
    —Alain de Boston

  • Resilience Skills

    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.
    —Jean Chatzky

  • Rock Bottom

    Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
    —J.K. Rowling

  • Founts of Hope

    What gives me hope? Young people, the resilience of nature, and the human brain.
    —Jane Goodall, ‘The Beat’ Interview (December 2022)

  • What’s possible

    Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
    —Saint Francis of Assisi

  • Walking in the Garden

    Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
    —Rumi

  • Turning Misfortunes

    There are few misfortunes in the world that you cannot turn into a personal triumph if you have the iron will and the necessary skill.
    —Nelson Mandela

  • Courage, Serenity, Insight

    Father, give us courage to change what must be altered, serenity to accept what cannot be helped, and the insight to know the one from the other.
    —The Serenity Prayer (attribution uncertain)

  • Within Our Grasp

    Resilience is not something that”s just a matter of grit and determination, and it’s not a matter of writing a prescription. It’s hard work! But the answer – the promised land – is within our grasp.
    —Jack Shonkoff MD, Resilience (KPJR Films)

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