Quotes About Resilience

An abused childhood affects the entire life... It affects every facet of the life.

When you go to a new country, you don't have the same facilities as you had in the one before. You adapt very quickly to the circumstances.

Being a champion is not just being a frontrunner and being ahead, but it's facing adversity.

You don't play 162 games without facing some adversity during the course of the year.

I was scared of facing only one bowler - that was Muttiah Muralitharan.

Knowing that I might be encouraging others by facing my own difficulties is what helps me get out of bed in the morning.

Facing a great server makes a match so much more difficult, even for the best players in the world.

At 16, I was facing 11 life felonies.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

Anything that disturbs your comfort factor is good for you.

Before going on 'X Factor' again, I felt like I'd tried everything else.

Black isn't something I became after a car crash that I've been dealing with ever since. I'd like the colour of my skin to not be a factor in my life at all.

It was difficult to step away. I've always been an athlete. And to give that up was extremely daunting. The looming factor of brain damage, to me, was too strong.

To me, it's always bumpy, and to me, that's the joy of it. That's this game. That's how hard it is in the NFL. Really, what you did last year or 2010, as we know, doesn't factor.

So many months in the 'X Factor' house and sharing my room with five other girls was tough.

One of the factors that has helped me to reach 100 games was not to lose hope.

There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking - well - I must find somebody or something because like this I cannot go on.

When I left school at 14, I thought I had better get a job. I got one in a factory where I sewed on buttons. It was so boring and we weren't allowed to talk or sing. I lasted a day.

My father passed away when I was two, and my mother was just 22-years-old back then. So young and only soul to take care of three brats. We were highly in debt and our financial condition was really bad. My mother used to work in a factory, and she used to complete the pending work at home.

When a campaign doesn't go my way, I always take a step back, look at the facts, and try to figure out what we could learn from that experience.

I've always said to everyone that ever worked for me, if you get too dug in on a position, the facts change, and you don't change to adapt to the facts, you will never be successful.

Old actors never die, they don't even fade away. They're always available.

No, I don't think rock 'n' roll will ever fade.

I'm not going to just fade out, I know.