Quotes About Resilience

I was adopted without the benefit of papers. They used to hide adoption in the forties; I don't know why. Perhaps it was shameful. I could have been kidnapped - there are all kinds of crazy things that people have done - but I got over dealing with that a long time ago.

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

It's pretty tough to intimidate me. And that's probably at my own peril sometimes.

Don't be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

Some times you lose more than you win. It's about handling losses and trying to turn them into positives. You get out into the big leagues and there's a period of adjustment to be made. You've got to handle it.

I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move.

Jesus died when he was 33, and when I was 33, I was coming out of a failed marriage and was in a really low point in my life because I was really sad about that. God healed me so much during that period. So I loved that year because I leaned on God, and then, as a result, I started checking things off my bucket list.

If a film does not do well, there is a certain period when you do feel low. It affects you because you put in a lot of effort.

I look at Rafa Benitez in his time at Liverpool, he had difficult periods and the same goes for Brendan Rodgers in the same job now. These difficult periods come and you have to accept that. I did as well as I could at Newcastle.

We want to show the world that even if you go through some bad periods, you always have to think positive just to go forward.

There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.

All players have 'ordinary' periods in their career and it's hard to explain why. So at these times, its all about self belief, hard work and hopefully you get the break and your form returns.

I've gone through terrible periods of depression. But, at the core of my being, there's a strange, out-of-place optimist. Despite what I'm feeling, I'm always able to get up and do my job. Which means the world to me.

That's how you win these battles over long periods of time. You continue to fight. You continue to bring it up. You continue to message it to your constituents and to America in general.

There are periods when you feel really good. You feel the ball is bigger. The court is larger. You feel like you can't miss. And then there are periods when you feel, 'OK, I'm not feeling great.' But I still need to try to find a way to win.

There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.

Even your favorite celebrities go through tough periods and have heartbreak. They must empower themselves with healthy choices, as do you!

I grew up in a military family, and my dad was gone for long periods of time. Families make it work because you know you care for each other.

With anxiety and depression, what's been most helpful to me has been learning a toolbox - a set of skills I can use when I'm in periods of low mood or feel an anxiety attack coming on. When Years & Years took off it felt like I needed that toolbox really quickly.

I have had periods of depression in my life.

You don't get many periods in your life when it all goes your way.

I'm a human, we're going to go through hard times and hard periods of our life, it's not going to be an easy ride all the time. That's what we forget. On social media, it seems that way that living are living these idyllic lives and it's not. There's going to be bumps in the road, that's life.

Many times, periods of struggle are more blessed times.