Quotes About Resilience

I was hit by a car. I almost died. My show was taken away from me. I was frightened.

With the lessons taken from the financial crisis in 1997, the Republic of Korea has been able to surmount the global economic crisis rather successfully.

A lot of things I've done in my life have taken incredible mental fortitude.

Looking back at all of my defeats, the only real punishment that I've taken in this sport was against Maidana. I got a fractured jaw.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you're dealt?

I've taken my beatings and learned how to get around and succeed against the big guys.

It's taken a lot of years for me to learn how to share my story.

I dish the dirt out, and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it? In 20 years, I have taken any number of stories, most of which are not true, without a murmur of complaint. But some stories you have to draw the line and say No.

Most of the albums that have taken long have been related to illness and fatigue or producer problems.

Any experience you go through, you take something away from it, and I've always taken more from the harder times.

I've taken great pride in not being fragile.

At 13, when I was a runaway, I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland, Ore. We didn't always know where our next meal was coming from, but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention, those girls could paint a face, and I learned how because of them.

So once you hit like that place, where everything is stripped from you, everything is taken from you, you really discover who you really are. I discovered that I'm a real hero, that I can deal with that situation, that I can rise up to the challenge.

No one's taken anything from me.

Neighbors broke the news that my parents had been taken away by immigration officers, and just like that, my stable family life was over.

People said: 'You're too big to play football,' but I kept playing and it just happened that people have caught on to me and taken to me. The nicest thing I get from it is that I can be myself and people seem to like it.

Sad stories have no takers.

It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

Grit, determination, the right amount of crazy, self belief - everything it takes to be a champion. I have that.

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

It takes a certain level of maturity to get hit and get knocked down and get back up.

What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit, and it takes grace.

Of course! It takes a lot of strength to mend a broken heart. Channelising energies into your work helps, but also to be able to accept situations for what they are instead of questioning them helps immensely.

Every day, you got to do adjustments. Every pitch. You got to do what it takes.