Quotes About Resilience

After my Kannada debut, I went through a difficult phase in life. People would make fun of me behind my back, and there were days I would cry alone for hours.

Every phase of my life always hasn't been perfect for me. I've had to go through some adversity.

In 1998 when I did the album 'Blue,' that was my worst phase.

There was a very bad phase for me where for two years, I did not get any work, and this was initially when I started, in 2014-15. I did not do any work during that time, I did not even get ads.

I grew up in Long Beach during a transitional phase. It's a lot better now, but there was a time where it was the peak of gang culture. That's a crazy thing to be born into.

I've grown up on TV, and there were some phases that weren't pretty.

When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through.

Unfortunately, we all go through bad phases.

I go through different phases where there's times of self-doubt, but when the bell rings and it's time to throw down and I get another opponent in my face, I just go to work my best. I fight and usually it turns out well for me.

I've had people that I've given up on, kicked out - situations where I was becoming part of the problem because I was sort of enabling so I said, 'Godspeed, farewell.' And they've come back to me four years later and they're in a CDAAC program or they're getting a PhD.

Fear is a phenomena that each one of us faces, in different ways.

The lows have been frustrating, and very challenging times, but the highs have been phenomenal.

I know, for some people, 2016 was entirely miserable. And I'm like, 'Does it have to end?' Because over here in the Liefeld corner, it's been phenomenal.

Phenomenal people in Ames and throughout the state of Iowa.

I think it's an amazing thing, the way people can change and open up. It shows how humanity is still alive in the world and how we can get better. We're the most adaptable, phenomenal machines ever created.

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

I think everybody from Philadelphia been shot at before.

This is what Philadelphia fighters are all about - rising to the occasion - and that's what I've been doing my whole career.

When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments.

Cities like Chicago and Philadelphia make the NFL what it is. They give the league its soul.

Part of the problem when I was doing 'How I Learned to Drive' is I would see my kids one night a week for six months, and that was just too hard. We moved to Philadelphia after we lost our house in the earthquake, the '94 Northridge earthquake.

I do play with a chip on my shoulder. That's who I am. That's how Philadelphia basketball players are raised.

Coming from the Philippines to the U.S. did shape me in that it gave me perseverance.

Growing up for me in the Philippines was hard to read comic books because I'm blind.