Quotes About Resilience

I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here.

If you're in a ditch, and you're looking down, you can see where you're going but you can't see the way out.

I say we are climbing out of a ditch and we are climbing up.

It's not like I don't like the term 'Diva.' It's what you make of it.

I'm going to prove to the rest of these girls walking around, strutting their stuff, that I am the top Diva and I am here to stay.

WWE wants women who are confident and can handle everything that being a WWE Diva comes with like lots of travel and being tough.

People saying I dive doesn't affect me at all. Not one bit.

We gotta play hard and leave it all out there. Dive for lose balls, take charges, just do whatever it takes to win the game.

In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.

People were expecting Rouge to go bankrupt, so there was a lot of anxiety. The corporate culture problem was even worse than in Russia. And at the same time, the work rules were more difficult.

I've been in so many bad movies and worked with so many bad directors that I go into a film expecting nothing.

Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.

Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.

Everybody's looking at me expecting me to shrink up and die.

I'm not sure if men really understand this, but I don't think there's a woman in America who really expects her life to be easy. In our own ways, we all know better!

I'm beyond caring what anyone expects of me anymore.

It's something that one expects after 12 years - to be eaten up by the process - but we're still very much on the outside.

Everybody expects you to play well, and when you don't have the results, that's tough.

We are a small nation that nobody expects anything of.

I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what I do by myself.

When you lose, you learn a lot about yourself. That experience is important.

If you feel a bit aggrieved or hard done by, you probably need the break just to reset yourself and give yourself time for different learning - to get out there and experience different things.

I've experienced Islamophobic stuff. But I don't care - you can say whatever you want to say about me, but I am who I am. I think that what I'm trying to fight for and what I'm performing for is bigger than any religion, race, creed, or class.

I'd be lying to say I've not experienced a lot of racism in my life; it's very much alive. I don't let it bother me. I couldn't be the singer I am if I didn't let it go.