Resilience quotes, with sources

If there is no struggle there is no progress.

Have patience, for “patience is the key of joy.”

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

Our strength is the strength of the obstacles we overcome.

I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.

I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.

If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Even bad fortune is fickle.

Thou shalt not be overcome.

Sweet are the uses of adversity.

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.

Much of your pain is self-chosen.

But lo! with hardship goeth ease.

And so I commanded myself to live.

Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

You can kill me, but you cannot hold me dead.

You are also as strong as your strongest link.

The characteristic of heroism is its persistency.

For sometimes it is an act of bravery even to live.

The soft overcomes the hard, and the weak the strong.

It is only when you are pursued that you become swift.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Disease is an impediment to the body, but not to the will.

It is the tears of the earth that keep her smiles in bloom.

A man is as wretched as he has convinced himself that he is.

Suppose any man shall despise me. Let him look to that himself.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Aye, the willing soul Fate leads, but the unwilling drags along.

In general, every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.

Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear.

Never say about anything, I have lost it, but say I have restored it.

The softest thing in the world dashes against and overcomes the hardest.

All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.

We only find rest in effort, as the flame only finds existence in combustion.

My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

If you would not have a man flinch when the crisis comes, train him before it comes.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.

As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, wise people falter not amidst blame and praise.

Life is not a dainty business.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing.

Fight, O my brother, as long as life lasts.

Earth hath no sorrows that earth cannot heal.

The way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

If we’re alive we shall find something to eat.

Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.

Exhort one another to truth and exhort one another to endurance.

To a good man nothing is evil, neither while living nor when dead.

If pain can be conquered by a smile, will it not be conquered by reason?

Let us think of everything that can happen as something which will happen.

How noble is the sad heart who would sing a joyous song with joyous hearts.

Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

It is not the strength, but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.

Seek help in patience and prayer; and truly it is hard save for the humble-minded.

Gentleness is sure to be victorious even in battle, and firmly to maintain its ground.

Difficulties increase the nearer we come to our aim.

Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold.

Even trees must be shaken by the wind, if they are to thrive.

After winter cometh summer, after night returneth day, after the tempest a great calm.

God withholds Himself from no one who perseveres.