Quotes About Resilience

I'm on the record for five losses or something like that, but the one guy who really whipped me was Muhammad Ali. And it taught me one big lesson. That no matter how big and strong you are, you're going to have to use your mind. You must think things out.

When I was a little kid we got whipped. It was nothing new to me, I was used to it.

You've got to stop whipping a dead horse sometime.

I cannot sit back and think that I am the best. I have to prove again and again that I am the most original music director around, even if I'm everyone's favorite whipping boy.

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.

Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.

Love always had my number. I could never patch a breakup together with whiskey and a one-night stand. I took them real hard.

You know what southern women are? Whiskey in a teacup. We're strong in the inside, but ornate on the outside.

I've gone on in a wheelchair. Another performance I did with no voice - and I had to apologize to the audience and whisper.

North Korea was pretty insane. Like the first thing my mom taught me was don't even whisper, the birds and mice could hear me. She told me the most dangerous thing that I had in my body was my tongue.

The newspapers were saying, 'You have AIDS.' They actually said I was dead. I just threw myself into my work when the whispering campaign turned really ugly.

Number two, we're going to play with a lot of effort. Our guys are going to be in such good shape that fatigue is not going to be a problem. We're going to play with full effort from snap to whistle on every play the entire game.

I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.

I'm going to keep rushing the ball until the whistle blows and it's the end of the game. That's how I'm going to keep playing.

You can only do what you can do in this world. If you start thinking of all the white noise out there, I think you'll go crazy.

Just because you're struggling with self-discipline doesn't mean you have to raise the white flag and declare your self-improvement efforts a complete failure. Instead, work to increase the chances that you'll stick to your healthier habits - even when you don't feel like it.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

War's not black and white; it's gray. If you don't fight in the gray area, you're going to lose.

I remember when I first saw Whoopi Goldberg doing standup, and she was wearing a sheet on her head, basically pretending to be this little white girl with long luxurious blonde hair. Everyone can relate to that. It's an oral history of black women's lives through laughter.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

My family and I survived Hurricane Katrina in 2005; we left my grandmother's flooding house, were refused shelter by a white family, and took refuge in trucks in an open field during a Category Five hurricane. I saw an entire town demolished, people fighting over water, breaking open caskets searching for something that could help them survive.

I had a few brushes with death, where I nearly chose to go. The final one in 1996 did it for me. I suddenly had that feeling that I wasn't indestructible. There was no big white light experience, I just felt this complete blackness and a huge voice inside me saying, 'This is not right.'