Quotes About Resilience

When you get told that you have a disease, it's like: 'Really? Nah, it's all right. I don't believe that. It must be something else, I'm just making an excuse, let me push harder.'

When my parents died, they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases, one being diabetes. I became a diabetic at 17 and went on this road of kind of self-destruction, eating-wise, until I was 40.

For those who are so courageously battling these terrible diseases, the least we can do is not stand in their way.

It's no disgrace to play against the world's champions and lose by one service break in the last two sets.

Executives don't burn out and leave when they feel deep satisfaction. They don't create the human detritus that disgruntled managers do.

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

I think all of us have enemies in disguise, but there is nothing much you can do about that. You have to live with it. I just do my own thing and let the enemies be.

I was told I'm disgusting, that I belong in a dumpster, that I'm going to hell... just the worst things you could say to somebody.

I dish the dirt out and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it?

All the Left and the media attack dogs can dish it out, can't they, but they sure can't take it.

Us players are supposed to dish it out for 90 minutes.

I like wrestling the bigger guys, personally, because I can lay into them harder, and they can dish it back out.

I don't like rehabilitating myself. It is one of the things I dislike.

Love or hate me, like or dislike me, laugh at me or cry with me, I have always shown you who I really am.

As much as I disliked it, my brothers used to whoop me every day, but I have a feeling that I'm probably a stronger man today because of it.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.

You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come.

You can move past your eating disorder and not let it have control over your life anymore.

The secret is to nip any mental disorder in the bud. As soon as you're not feeling yourself, reach out and get some help because you can quickly get better. If you get stuck in it, it's so hard to get out.

Having been raised during the war, I know very well how childhood hampered by displacement, poverty, violence, and fear looks like.

Your plan is not as important as your culture. That means you will run into problems that will disrupt your plan and schedule, and how you deal with that depends on the culture you have created within your team.

There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.

Without disruptions in life, where would we be?