Quotes About Resilience

'Family Life' is a blueprint of my life. It was horrible and physically gruesome in a way the book doesn't attempt to capture. It was emotionally very bleak.

I couldn't change the fact that I did my ACL, but I could control how I reacted to it. That's what I focused on, becoming stronger mentally and physically.

I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I said, 'Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I'm a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.'

I've done what I could as far as getting physically healthy after my knee injury, and I've done what I could to get mentally healthy after losing my husband.

I'm excited by challenging myself physically and mentally every day.

I can take just about anyone and make them physically strong.

It's physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

I was with Luke Shaw at Southampton. He's a very strong boy. He's had a horrific leg injury. You don't come back from that without being mentally and physically strong.

I'm not physically intimidated by anyone on this earth.

I just think my body can't handle it any more. I did try a little drink a while back, and I was actually physically ill. I went into an immediate depression, and felt awful, just dreadful. So that's it. I'm over it now.

Sarah is very strong. She's really intelligent and she's very physically capable. I like to put that into my own life as well.

I think for a girl to be strong, it doesn't have to involve being physically strong.

Anytime where you're challenged, physically or mentally, you rise to the occasion in different ways.

I wish it didn't take soooooo much to get physically to where I need to be.

I cannot count the times I've been defeated, humiliated, or physically injured immediately after saying the words, 'Hey, how hard can it be?' But that never seems to stop me from saying them again.

People who are against me attack me personally. They attack the way I look physically, they attack the way I dress, they attack everything but what I say.

When I'm boxing, if my career isn't going well, at least I feel mentally and physically strong.

It's very important to work myself physically as hard as I can.

People have no idea how physically tough doing a film is.

I was a sickly child, not very strong physically. I wasn't really the greatest in school. I didn't really excel in anything particularly. But I was happy with who I was.

The older you get, the less physically and mentally robust you become.

Mentally, I am very strong; physically I am very strong. I think that keeps me going. That keeps me strong all the time.

In life, when you lose anyone, there's always an adjustment period - emotionally, mentally and physically.

I am a very strong believer in one thing. The more physically fit you are, the more mentally fit you get.