Quotes About Resilience

What gets lost is we wouldn't be who we are and as successful as we have been if we didn't have a decent batting average.

I was on 'Gilmore Girls' for seven years and had a couple decent years after that. Then, two years of almost nothing. I had jobs here and there, but I got very, very scared.

I've done second leads in movies, I've done really small roles, too. Other actors never bother me, I believe I'm decent enough to make my own place.

Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.

I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.

Fear of decision-making is one thing I personally resist, and I'm trying to encourage others to resist as well.

Every career thing I do can't be perfect and sometimes my decisions are wrong.

Any gay man in America redeals a deck at some point.

As soon as people decline my services, I'll put my briefcase under my arm, and I'll be off.

You've got to earn it every day. It's never enough when you think you've done enough. That's when you start to get on the decline... You've got to earn it every day, practice hard and show you belong.

I did not dedicate my life to making Baltimore a safer and more just place because it was easy.

I truly believe deep down that I cannot be beaten. Everything in life can either build you or break you.

When my career slowed, I knew deep down it wasn't over.

I knew deep down that I was going to have my little girl, even if I had to raise her on my own, which is what I did.

After September 11, I got to understand a little bit of his deep love for this country.

Like most Africans, I had to work much harder and show much deeper belief than others.

The first cut is the deepest.

I do think entrepreneurs need to be smart, but there's another scale I never evaluated myself on that is now the source of my deepest strength: Not how much brains I have, but how much love I have.

My life and the lives of many across the world have been deeply affected by lymphoma.

You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.

I don't think any professional accepts defeat.

I don't believe in defeat.

I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.

It's hard to deal with defeat.