Quotes About Resilience

Nobody is powerless.

Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.

I feel like, throughout lots of my life, especially growing up, I felt powerless.

No one has it easy, and to some degree, everyone feels lonely and powerless, which may cause them to make hurtful decisions.

The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.

Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

My folks were very practical. They were also kind of able to think outside of the box. They were not going to let circumstance paralyze them. They knew sometimes you just had to take some new initiative. I think they passed that on to all of us... If you don't find a way, you make one.

I just feel like I influence people because I'm like - I was practically homeless.

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

I have continued to paint; my father - who was savaged by the critics - continued to paint until practically the last week of his life.

You could be the best in the world, but it doesn't matter. It's four-ounce gloves. I've been dropped in practice with a knee to the body. I take a good knee to the body and break my ribs in the fight, I lost. I mean, it's a fight.

It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

My nerves tend to dissipate once the match starts. When I know I've practiced as much as I can and I do my best and leave it all out there, I feel OK no matter what happens.

I made records for 20 years, I lived off it. But people would say I made so many mistakes, I did so many things you're not supposed to do. I had a band name nobody could say. I didn't play live. I never practiced, I never got better at my instrument.

Fatigue is one thing. Injuries are another. But if you are just tired because you just practiced - well, I'm not having that.

At times I've played through extreme pain or not practiced for weeks and tried to go out there and play.

Practices were tough.

When people are coming to Krakow and we show them how and where we practice, they are like, 'Seriously? Are you kidding me?' But we're always saying that what matters about the courts - the lines, the nets - are the same. I'm practicing in Poland even when I don't have good facilities.

I had broken my nose while practicing. Also I got a fracture on my shoulders, knees.

I got a third-degree ankle sprain practicing long jump. I never fully recovered. That was my first heartbreak. I thought track was going to be something that was going to happen in my life. It never went in the direction I wanted it to, no matter how hard I tried.

I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.

I have always been the kind of guy to adjust to anything. I never cared where I was going to sleep or what court I was going to practise on.