Quotes About Resilience

I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease.

I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.

In 'Poster Boys,' I played a character that no one would have thought that I could portray. The film helped me focus on work, and I worked so hard on it that even though it didn't do well, I didn't let it bring me down.

I've always wanted to make a poster out of my bad reviews and frame it.

I didn't ask anyone to make me a poster boy, because poster boys always end up on dart boards.

I've never wanted to be a poster boy, but if I'm going to be a poster boy for anything, it should be this. If you don't give up, and if you carry on believing in yourself when others are doubting you, you can make it.

When I was born, my dad was a scaffolder, and my mum worked in a chip shop. Then my mum taught herself how to be a hairdresser and ended up with her own salon; my dad became a postman and then a counter clerk. Our first house didn't have a bathroom.

Do I wish I had never endured postpartum depression? Absolutely. But to deny the experience is to deny who I am.

My muscles have caved in. I go to bed at night, and next day I've got this pot belly where all my muscles have collapsed; so I look fat, but there's nothing I can do about it.

In North Korea I thought a frozen potato was the fanciest food in the world.

Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch.

Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning.

My father, who was a hair colourist, died when I was young, so my mother had to work very hard. But at the same time, I do believe that if you have everything, it is easy to make a dinner. When you only have flour and water and olives and potatoes, you have to be much more creative, and that's what my mother is all about.

When you're poor, an egg sandwich is dinner and you cut your potatoes with a butter knife.

What's happened to society is we've become really pretentious. But there was a time in my life where I really had to choose between boiling potatoes and paying my gas bill, so I'd buy a can of potatoes.

It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.

Every child deserves to grow up knowing their potential and feeling confident that they won't fall at the first hurdle - that they cope with life's setbacks.

America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.

When the present gets tough, you have to battle through it by imagining an outcome that is weeks, potentially even months, ahead.

I learned how to navigate the world, and life's potholes, in Pittsburgh.

Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.

It's always great when you just pound the rock, impose your will, and that is going to break the spirit of the defense if you can keep running it and they can't stop you.

When you have a little bit of a lead, you've got to continue to pound away.

Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.