Quotes About Resilience

My life isn't going to stop because my father's dead and my trolls won't stop and people won't stop writing about me.

But I have the most incredible support system in the world. They let me have those times when I just want to cry. But I give myself a deadline and say, today's my sad day but tomorrow when the sun comes up it's done.

For us, there is no such thing as failure. You can't miss a deadline; you can't come up short on an assignment. You have to perform, period.

Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.

I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come.

I'm totally deaf in my right ear, yeah.

Am I complaining about my deafness? No, I am not.

Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.

I can go 0-for-5, I can go 5-for-5, I'm going to be the same guy. I'm a happy guy, people have to deal with it.

I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.

Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.

The first gay people we elect must be strong. They must not be content to sit in the back of the bus. They must not be content to accept pablum. They must be above wheeling and dealing.

At the end of the day, your life is on the line when you're dealing with abusive men, and your life is more important than any man.

'The Awakening' is meant to be listened to in its entirety. Every song ultimately explores a character dealing with life, making mistakes, fighting, trying. But we also live in a singles-type world, and it works on that level, too.

Everyone deals with loss. I'm no different, but we all find our ways of coming through things. Is it tough? Of course, but you find the strength to push on through.

Everyone deals with loss.

I feel older than I really am. It's because of the cards I was dealt.

I've dealt my entire career with sexist and condescending people.

I've dealt with many challenges in my life, with my family.

I'm me, and I've got the cards that I've been dealt.

I can tell you I have dealt with mania my whole life.

I accept the cards that were dealt to me.

I want to make lemonade out of the lemons that were dealt to me.

When things have gone really wrong in my life, I've cried like a child. I have really, really cried. I cry it out. Two-three days I cry, and then I'm like, enough, time to deal with reality and figure a way out. This is the way I have dealt with everything.