Quotes About Resilience

To put up with what you cannot avoid is a philosophical principle, that may not perhaps lead you to the accomplishment of great deeds, but is assuredly eminently practical.

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

I was raised with moral principles that would not be shaken in hard times. And mentorship is huge - it's really important to be around people who have been where you've been, people you look up to and who will keep you strong.

It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.

I will say that Rick will probably die before the end of the book. I'll go ahead and put that in print. Nobody's safe. I've almost killed him three times already.

I remember giving auditions for ad films and I used to wait for hours for my turn to come. I used to go for print shoots for Rs 2000. I used to go to the director's office with my portfolio and the receptionists used to tell me to put it in the post box outside.

I don't think you can climb Mount Everest with a broken leg, but I did break my leg prior to going to Mount Everest, so I was really climbing with a healing broken leg. I had the good fortune of climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. That was a goal that I had.

How do I feel when I look back at prior work? Hmmm. I think, 'I tried to do the best I could do. It's not perfect. It will never be perfect.' And then I think, 'I want to try again.'

Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities.

In a world where shows have to keep going while the priorities change, I have to stay flexible.

You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.

We will not give up the fight to ensure that mental health is the given the priority it needs and deserves.

Wrestling will always be my top priority.

People thought I disappeared, but I never went away. Music has always been a priority.

I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

None of my peers avoided prison. None of 'em.

South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.

Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.

Prison killed me. It destroyed me.

I lost everything when they put us in prison. I was an enemy alien, a man without a country.

I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.

When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

I come from Eastside Buffalo and prison cells. That's the beauty about hip-hop. It just brings everybody together.