Quotes About Resilience

You know what, man, that's part and parcel of being a black person in this country: everything's harder. It just is.

I've had injuries that have hampered my career but that is part and parcel of being a footballer. You just have to bounce back and remain focused.

Struggle has been a part and parcel of my life.

I've experienced it a few times at club level, when a manager goes. It doesn't become any easier, but it's part and parcel.

I have always said we are going to play well and we going to play badly. And I have not got issues when people criticise as long as we don't play well. That's part and parcel of the game. I love it and that's how it should be.

I would have liked to have played more but injuries are part and parcel of football and you've got to shoulder it, got to take it on and get on with it.

Life is like a circle and you have to know when to move on. Success and failure are a part and parcel of it.

It is part and parcel of politics that you forget whatever has happened and move on to the future.

I was working part-time as a cleaner while I was going to college and then babysitting after school.

Life requires things from you - if you're really living it and are really alive - that are really difficult and painful, and you can't avoid those things if you're really participating.

I hope that I inspire women to believe in themselves, no matter where they come from; no matter what education they have; what particular background they originate from.

Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the block - kick all the drug dealers and gang bangers off the block. My father was very clear: 'I've got guns too, and I'll kill you just as much as a rival gang would.' And he meant it. He was a man of many facets and complexities.

I've never been particularly aware of my age. It's like being on a bicycle - I just put my foot down and keep going.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

There's certainly harder things in the world and the country to do than being an actor, but it's a particularly emotionally humiliating thing to do, that you don't really anticipate when you choose to do it. You don't really think that it's going to be quite so soul-crushing at times.

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.

If you try to breastfeed and it's not working, then you don't feel particularly good about yourself.

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures.

A simple leather jacket... has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan.

We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.

I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will.

Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.