Quotes About Resilience

When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.

And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard.

When I was very small, the electricity was turned off because we didn't pay the bill. I remember sitting by the oil lamp listening to my mother playing 'Careless Love' on the piano.

Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting.

Accidents happen and all of that, but it's how we pick ourselves up from the accidents that matters.

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.

You have to be physical. If you are not, defensive backs will try to pick on you.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

When you need to make changes, even when people don't want to change, you have to pick the company up and change it, even if it means cannibalizing yourself.

People ask me, what was your rock bottom? I say, pick.

You have to be confident enough to pick yourself up and go to 30 meetings and be told no every time and not take that to heart.

When you crash and burn, you have to pick yourself up and go on and hope to make up for it.

There's nothing greater than just having people that pick you up when you get knocked down.

It just doesn't go with my story to be a first round pick, because I had to grind my whole life.

People only see what they want to see and sometimes you can't do anything about that, so you just pick up the baton and you just run with it.

I'm not one that sulks when he's injured. I use it as time to learn, to pick up on things.

Get used to dealing with failure as long as it doesn't hurt people around you, as long as it doesn't hurt you physically, or it doesn't hurt you so much that you can't pick yourself up.

I wanted to show that even if you fail, you have the ability to pick yourself up off the floor and try again. I wanted to show a different side of what a disability looks like to highlight all the invisible ones.

We all fail - I have failed so many times, but it never discourages me. I just pick up and go.

You know if you give 100 per cent every day that you're going to be happy with yourself. When you lose you've got to pick yourselves up and go again.

At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up - come pick me up because I couldn't physically walk up the hill.

I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing.

My philosophy is fight anyone, anywhere. If you're going to be the best then you're going to have to beat them all, so why pick and choose?