Quotes About Resilience

Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar sounds decades older than he is, and it's not necessarily the wear and tear that comes from a rough life; instead, his world-weariness seems to result from years of soul-searching.

If I was a stone mason or if I was a painter or building bridges or whatever, there's going to be some wear and tear on your body and your brain. And that's just the way it is.

I had a 180-degree tear around my shoulder, my AC joint needed stabilising and a tear in my rotator cuff.

You're using the same body parts over and over again, eventually there will be wear and tear.

In judo, you get your arm broke. You get choked. You can tear your ACL.

Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.

There's a danger in romanticizing what it means to be a writer. Because what it really means is hard, hard work. It means tearing your hair out. Feeling like your head is about to explode.

If I cry, it's because I'm very angry and I can't do anything about it because I've run into a dead end. That's when the tears would come down.

They'll take everything, even your tears.

I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.

Nobody likes a presenter melting in a self-indulgent puddle of tears.

I tore my right shoulder to pieces - three external tears, a labrum tear, and a detachment of the bicep tendon.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

I've had broken bones and cuts and dashes and tears from movies, but when I was five, my mom put the biscuits up high so we wouldn't be helping ourselves. So, one day I asked to stand up on a chair to get a biscuit, and it fell, and the corner of the chair went right into the side of my eye, and it made a big hole in there.

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.

I defy anyone to finish Halldor Laxness's 'Independent People' without wetting the pages with tears.

I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much.

Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.

I went through a lot of hard times. I went through a lot of struggle. A few times, I was in tears. It brought me to my knees just about.

I have shed many tears of pain and indignation.

All the energy, all the pain, sweat and tears that go into it, the amount I had to put in to get me to where I had to play, it was more taxing on me physically and mentally than it was good for me.

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.

Dr. Rice went well beyond offering a helping hand - she went so far as to shed tears and share hugs with those who, in a matter of just a few hours, had lost everything to the rising floodwaters.