Quotes About Resilience

broken things can be mended, but there is always a scar.

Every time I try to play by rules I get smashed into the ground.

Now Josie knew she kept them to remind her that broken things can be mended, but there is always a scar.

Broken locks and bruised knees and borrowed lipgloss and rain on the streets

I don't know why, but whenever I'd look at Amber, all determined and long-legged, I'd imagine her climbing out of a car wreck while the slow, sluggish passengers burned inside.

In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard.

Pac get busy. People can't take nothing from him. On the lyrics, he get busy, straight up.

Some people just stick to what they do, and it comes back to bite them in the butt.

I've been nothing several times. But it's my faith in myself and in my father that comes back to me and makes me get back up off my butt and be something worth being proud of.

I didn't want to learn the butterfly because it's hard. I got it right away, but I didn't want to do it.

By the time I was seven, my mother and I had moved 13 times.

If you can build up a sense of self-confidence if you're non-white by the time you're 15, 16 then that can't be taken away from you.

Shortly after he became the first Muslim to attend cabinet, I urged Sadiq Khan to be prepared. The Islamophobes, the new McCarthyites, would at some stage come after him. He laughed it off. Yet it was only a matter of time.

I worked at Little Caesar's for about two days, bro. I was out. That's the only job I've ever had.

I'd rather be known for my talent, for what I can do in the cage. I'm sure that will come.

Being in a five-by-seven every day for 365 days a year is more than what the average man could stand. You weren't built to be in a cage that long.

I spent many hours in the batting cage. I remember many days when my hands were pretty cut up and bleeding.

Luke Cage is a beast, man. You can't take that guy down no matter what.

When it is all said and done, everything is different once you get up into the cage.

We can't get in the cage thinking that we'll win quickly, that we'll get the knockout.

Once I experienced that loss to Miesha, I wanted to get back in the cage and show that it was just a mistake.

Once that cage shuts, I'm the one in control of my destiny.

When you're used to fighting in a cage, nothing scares you.

I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.