Quotes About Resilience

I am so proud of Amelia Boynton. I can burst with pride.

As a decathlete, you take pride in saying, 'The elements, I'm not going to let them affect me. It's just the 11th event. Another thing you have to fight through.'

I remember, after 'Tumbleweeds,' my friend and I wrote 'Pride and Glory.' I was just about to get it going. I had some really great actors attached, and New Line was going to make the movie, and 9/11 happened. And it was over. By September 12, it was over. And rightfully so. I understood that.

My personal pride is not strong enough to make me brave. But I don't know why I equate being brave with fighting.

If I could have gotten my way at an early age, I would have entered the priesthood, but my mother informed me that I could not become a priest because I was a girl. It really was the biggest blow to my ego, because it was my calling. When she told me I'd have to be a nun, I looked at her and said, 'I'm not following anyone.'

I am not a prima donna. It's just that I feel cold on the bench.

My brokenness has made me become more primal, more instinctual.

I have a deadly disease called Sickle Cell Anemia that I was born with that affects millions of others - primarily in the Black and Latino cultures. I feel I can inspire others with this Sickle Cell disease to be strong and believe in themselves.

I lost my first mayor's race. I lost the primary. But we came back and won that. So I know you've got to play to win, but you can't be afraid to lose.

I was a very anxious kid. I was bullied at primary school and responded by making myself as anonymous as possible at secondary school.

Do you know what prepares you for the mental hospital? Being a prime minister's wife.

I lost a year in my prime of my career.

There's a feeling of invincibility that comes with being young, with being fit and in the prime of your life. But I learned when I was in the Marines just like I've learned as a UFC fighter that no one is invincible, and that you have to project yourself at all times.

Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.

One of the things I'm so determined to preserve and restore is the fact that you can be the kid who was born in Dinsdale and find yourself working for the British government in the U.K., to being prime minister.

To be prime minister, you need to fight many entities, you need to be very determined. It's not going to fall in your lap.

Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

I always have Band-Aids, ideally ones with princesses on them, because they're the best.

In 'The White Princess,' the women are leading the story, and they're holding everything together. It's definitely a world of women's empowerment.

I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

This concept of turning dying into flying is a metaphor for my basic life principle.

What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold their ground, they are really magnificent.