Quotes About Resilience

Let me explain something about survival. You do not worry about the third or fourth stepping stone until you have successfully traversed the first and second. Anything beyond them is a diversion of energies away from the immediate moment.

Believe me, this will help. When everything seems like it couldn't get any worse, you'll always be able to tell yourself: I did this one brilliant thing, this one brilliant thing that no one else has ever or will ever do. And that makes me special.

None of us is a monster, Chiku. We're all just trying to make the best of our singular natures.

Losing has changed my whole persona about fighting.

'Faith and Will' sprang from my personal experience with passing through a dark spiritual time.

For my own personal growth I had to set out on my own.

After 'Ace of Space,' I had quite a bumpy ride in terms of my career and personal life.

I became very patient. There are a lot of times when people who do not like you are talking about you and telling bad things on your face. In our personal life, we do get affected by such things.

My album, 'No Shame,' will give my fans an extremely real and heartfelt experience of what I have been going through in my personal life.

For me, the only thing I had to look forward to was the ring because my personal life wasn't doing that great, so my fake life was what I was holding onto.

When I came to Nashville, my personal life went to hell.

I can fall on my face at times, but I get right back up, dust myself off, laugh, and keep it moving. I never take things or myself too seriously in my personal life.

We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.

Failure is a personal thing but it's better to experience it in the beginning itself because you learn to handle it.

Failure is a very personal thing and everybody goes through it very personally.

After Rilo Kiley broke up and a few really intense personal things happened, I completely melted down. It nearly destroyed me. I had such severe insomnia that, at one point, I didn't sleep for five straight nights.

In the beginning, you know, everyone told me, 'Your eyes are too small, the nose is too big, you can never be on a magazine cover.' But, you know what? The big nose is coming with a big personality.

But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.

I'm never entirely happy. That's just part of my personality, and I just have to accept that.

If I see something that's extremely challenging, I'm like, 'That seems really hard. Let's try it.' It's just my personality.

I know a lot of Cup Series champions, and they each have a very different personality. They all go about handling adversity, their challenges, and even confrontation a little differently.

The British public like a Briton with personality, someone who comes out on court and isn't dour and down on themselves.

Early in my career, if I didn't get the ball, or if something would happen, or the media would say something, I'd take it personally.

I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.