Quotes About Resilience

I lived a full life but I had to battle my demons.

It's important to face down your demons.

Everyone has got demons and stuff they're dealing with.

I feel like I've put my demons behind me.

My demons are not that easy to shake.

Every war has its demons.

Everybody has their demons that they face, and I went through a time when I thought it was impossible to love myself.

But yeah, I don't think you can conquer demons.

You face your demons doing Bikram. You challenge them, beat them.

I'd love to go back to the U.S. Open, where it sort of all came crashing down for me in 2012, and sort of conquer that place. And by conquer, I mean just get back out on the court there. I have a lot of demons from that place.

Seeing your baby in pain and seeing them crying and that sort of thing, and you're tired, and you can do nothing about it - that's, like, one of the most demoralizing things I can think of.

Denial has been a way of life for me for many years. I actually believe in denial.

A lot of guys around the league might say I need a dentist.

I'd rather go to the dentist... but I'm going.

Most of the bad things that have happened to me happened in Denver.

If I deny myself something, I just get resentful, so what's the point?

The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.

My mother had taught me that the only thing you could depend on was your faith, and I had that.

Drag was always looked at as a stepchild, and I wasn't willing to sit at the kid's table anymore so I took what's mine. You can't depend on other people to give you what you want; you have to take it.

Always make sure that you can support yourself and that you always have a cushion. And never, ever, depend on anyone else for money.

But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.

I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.

I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.

Emotionally, I depend only on myself. My strong belief in the Almighty carries me.