Resilient People Quotes

#1. Highly resilient people are flexible, adapt to new circumstances quickly, and thrive in constant change. Most important, they expect to bounce back and feel confident that they will. They have a knack for creating good luck out of circumstances that many others see as bad luck.

Al Siebert

#2. Life is so precious because it's short. Even the most resilient people are fragile. Life isn't about dying or not dying. It's about living well. Living so you can be proud and happy.

Ilona Andrews

#3. A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.

Nick Rahall

#4. What happens to us becomes part of us. Resilient people do not bounce back from hard experiences; they find healthy ways to integrate them into their lives. In

Eric Greitens

#5. How resilient people are. If one day you woke up to find that you had been transformed into a gigantic insect, the chances are you would just get up and carry on with your new life.

Paul Broks

#6. The Pakistanis are very resilient people.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#7. It's amazing how resilient people are, and how the things that didn't come true become,after a while, simply the way things are.

Anna Quindlen

#8. Readiness is a form of humility, spurred by a recognition of how little we can know or control. Hardship is unavoidable. Resilient people recognize this reality. Then they prepare themselves for it, seeking to meet it as best they can, on their own terms.

Eric Greitens

#9. Curiosity has ... proven to be a great ingredient in resilience, a trait particularly valuable in an extended economic downturn. Resilient people aren't made of steel; they just provide themselves with more options, and those options come from a curious mind.

Chip Conley

#10. I think that Detroiters are some of the most resilient people in the world.

Mayer Hawthorne

#11. Floridians are a strong, resilient people. We are fortunate to live in a great state where all Floridians enjoy opportunities to get a great job and a world-class education.

Rick Scott

#12. It's a common theme around the city of New Orleans; we're resilient people because we have to be. We love this place with all of our heart and all of our soul and I just wanted to try to do something that I could to help make it better.

Mitch Landrieu

#13. I love when people are resilient and when they form ways of dealing with grief or dealing with some traumatic episode, and sometimes those are the wrong choices.

Atom Egoyan

#14. I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

Viggo Mortensen

#15. Positive emotions and mental states may make people more resilient to stress, like sturdy tree branches that bend but don't break when battered by a storm

Melanie Greenberg

#16. I am startled by how resistant people are to doing anything nice or nurturing for themselves, especially women. They fear being selfish. This intense clinging to a martyr role doesn't serve anyone. It makes you brittle, not resilient.

Annette Vaillancourt

#17. We are always creating new tools and techniques to help people, but the fundamental framework is remarkably resilient, which means it must have something to do with the nature of organizations or human nature.

John P. Kotter

#18. History was a tangled thing, people were resilient, and the one constant law of the world was that it would heal.

Brenna Yovanoff

#19. Most people are remarkably resilient. Even those who have been through war or great loss often find reservoirs of strength. But the legacy of trauma is a heavy burden to bear.

Christina Baker Kline

#20. Please don't use the word tough. People might get the impression that I don't care. And I do care, very deeply. Resilient, I think.

Margaret Thatcher

#21. First of all we have to recognize that despite all the problems - and in some cases failures - that this regime has been much more successful, much more resilient, than people had anticipated.

Mitchell Reiss

#22. When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#23. I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.

Amy Tan

#24. Many of my favorite survivors in fiction show that it may not be the most muscled, macho or mighty people who pull through. A strong mind and body aren't always enough. You might also need a resilient heart.

Claire Cameron

#25. Our goals and what we hope to achieve by moving to food assistance is even in supporting the crisis needs of the most vulnerable people, we provide them with the capacity to be more resilient to the next shock.

Ertharin Cousin

#26. With a population of more than 600 million people, an emerging middle class that is driving strong consumption, and a robust and resilient economy, Southeast Asia presents a compelling growth opportunity for Starbucks.

Howard Schultz

#27. Contemporary research shows that happy people are more altruistic, more productive, more helpful, more likable, more creative, more resilient, more interested in others, friendlier, and healthier. Happy people make better friends, colleagues, and citizens.

Gretchen Rubin

#28. The Red Kimono tells it all - the bitterness and pain as well as the joy, pride and patriotism of a people too resilient to be beaten by racism.

Sandra Dallas

#29. I want our people to be like a molave tree, strong and resilient, standing on the hillsides, unafraid of the rising tide, lighting and the storm, confident of its strength.

Manuel L. Quezon

#30. People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support.

Robert Breault

#31. charismatic people are more resilient and do know how to stay positive when most people would panic. But that positivity is grounded in reality. It's how they really feel. On those occasions where the charismatic person is genuinely hurt, nervous, or pissed, they reveal those feelings.

Charlie Houpert

#32. History often reads as a hard and grim experience. But people are remarkably resilient and funny, even when the going is very hard.

Jim Murphy

#33. The strong overcome several trials.
The determined overcome numerous trials.
The resilient overcome many trials.
The extraordinary overcome countless trials.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#34. The companies we admire are like the people we admire: resilient, authentic, personable, collaborative, ambitious, and humble.

Chip Conley

#35. Boston is a tough and resilient town. So are its people. I'm supremely confident that Bostonians will pull together, take care of each other, and move forward as one proud city. And as they do, the American people will be with them every single step of the way.

Barack Obama

#36. The higher mental activities are pretty tough and resilient, but it is a devastating experience if the drive does stop. Some people lose it in their forties and can only stop. In England they are a source of Vice-Chancellors.

John Edensor Littlewood

#37. In order to counteract income inequality, it's essential to tackle poverty in an integrated way that has long-term impact. We need to give people the capacity to be resilient, to take on challenges and to learn the skills they need to work toward more prosperous futures.

Helene D. Gayle

#38. In the Afghan people, I found the most resilient, welcoming people who, for the first time in my career, never judged me over my right to tell this story - as a woman or a foreigner. A people who cherish their culture and history and the films that have captured that culture.

Pietra Brettkelly