Quotes About Resilience

We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.

If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.

The idea of getting a lifetime job, and making $100,000 a year, with benefits, is dead and gone. It's over. And it may never come again. That's a very scary thought for a lot of people.

I'll do what I've got to do in my own career and my own life. For my own happiness. I'm not gonna be bent over a barrel and told what to do.

I was never hell bent on being an actress forever, but I will not say that I won't work again.

There was a point in my life and my career where I had less than $100 to spend on both of my kids for Christmas. I remember telling myself, I remember telling my best friend, I said, 'This will never happen again.' I will not let this happen. I mean, $100 for me to spend on my family, friends, everybody.

I was going through a divorce so I wasn't having the best time, but I wasn't going to the doctor for Prozac.

For me, I just began, eventually, to embrace what I had. This is what I have to deal with and, not just deal with, but this is what I have to share, and how can I do that the best way.

I'm a guy that learns from making mistakes. Sometimes that's not the best way to learn, but that's how I learn.

If the opportunities are a little limited, then you've got to try to find a way to make something happen the best way you can.

I work as if I were going to be the next person to need a respirator. I share in the benefits I bestow on others, and my work has enriched my life.

At the end of the day, don't bet against me. Don't bet against me.

I'm kind of the wrong guy to bet against.

If I don't have a bet or a drink today, then I've done well. And I can start again tomorrow.

When a change in how some element of one's business is conducted becomes an order of magnitude larger than what that business is accustomed to, then all bets are off.

You've got to take care of yourself as you get older, definitely going to try and do a better job of that.

Get on with your life and learn to become a better man and that's the way I live my life.

The night that I fought Bigfoot, he was the better man. He beat me that night. No excuses.

One emerges as a better person after going through the wringer.

Not having my father around has made me a better person.

There is always something we can be concerned about. The secret is to rise above it and do whatever we can to make the world a better place.

CB4 is never coming back. A few years later, I think I'm a much better player. It's funny, even all the way over here in Africa, people are telling me, 'We need CB4 back.' I can't be that. That's impossible.

Doubt can be good because it means you want to improve: you want to be a better person, a better player. But it's also good not to have too many doubts on the court.

When I came over, there was a lot of criticism that I was too young to go to England. I just wanted to take that experience and be a better player.