Quotes About Resilience

I don't have a sense of fear. If someone warns me saying you cannot do this, it is extremely difficult, I am capable of doing it.

I lost most of my friends. Their parents had told them to stay away from me, because they said I was crazy, I was an extremist.

We don't have to let extremists define us.

In the extremity of war, character is revealed.

There are people out there with an eye on my hard-earned cash who think that I am a pushover. I am not!

Even now that I only have one eye, maybe I see more things than before. My life was completely against the clock, a fight against the stopwatch.

When I moved to L.A., I was penniless, absolutely beyond broke and in debt up to my eyeballs.

If you're an actor, you get your eyes put out; you get everything done to you.

I've started to get iritis, which affects the eyes. But I'm not going to give in.

Without hope, the very fabric of our society will fall apart.

People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad.

We all have challenges. We have to face them, embrace them, defy them, and conquer them.

Celebrate creativity and confidence in the face of adversity.

During the times I wanted to give up because of all the challenges I faced, we did it. We Filipinos can do it.

I have always faced challenges in my life.

There are a lot of challenges I undeniably have faced as a black person both in the U.K. and in the U.S. that contrived to make me feel lesser than what I am.

I've always been faced with all kinds of criticism. People were saying, 'Oh, Shaggy is pop. He can't do dancehall,' even though I came from dancehall.

I've faced a lot of short pitched bowling in my life and haven't had too many issues with it.

I have faced trolling from the time I have been on social media.

I'm grateful for the things I've faced in my career because they make me better - every single one of them.

We try 100% every single week to do the best job we can, but we always seem to find 10 more percent when we're faced with adversity.

Everyone faces adversity.

The greatest enemy one ever faces is one's own self.

To see old faces, to give back to the kids and let them know I come from these same schools and streets, and they can make it out, too, that's my biggest message to them.