Quotes About Resilience

That's life in the league for you, though. I mean - that's life for you, period. Things don't always happen in a straight line. There's usually going to be a zig here, a zag there, that catches you by surprise. And then it's on you to adapt.

I can't control everything that's said, but I've been around. Nothing will surprise me.

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

When it's only you that you can rely on, you're surprised at the resilience you have.

My philosophy has been to take things day by day. When I talk about this philosophy, it makes people perhaps a little surprised.

I'm always surprised that I'm still around funk and that people are still into it.

I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.

I'm surprised that we're around still. A lot of the bands that we came out with are not around.

Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through.

I'm not surprised by hardly anything anymore.

I could have easily never worked again after 'Precious.' I could be back at my receptionist job and no one would be surprised, but I'm having a very crazy little career that no one thought would happen. Although that was never the plan.

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.

I'm surprised how easily Don Imus came back. He was off the air for a little while after the 'nappy-headed' comment in 2007, and then he's back as strong as ever.

Sometimes it used to hurt so bad when people used to say stuff about me. It still does. But I'm at a level now that I'm like, 'I ain't surprised that they said this or that about me.'

It's amazing to me that some kids are surprised to find out Indians are still alive.

I've been out now for so many years that I am not surprised at what someone may occasionally say. It really doesn't faze me.

In all my childhood, I never heard my grandparents say that anything shocked or surprised them. They knew what their country was capable of.

Life is full of surprises, and you need to be ready for everything.

Nothing really surprises me anymore. You put yourself out there - you're open and honest with what you have to deal with.

When people who are close to me say that they see positive changes in me as I grow, it makes me work harder on myself. Life always surprises us with something new, and I want to be capable enough to handle it.

Life is full of challenges and surprises, and I've had my share.

When you're around for as long as I have, nothing surprises you any more.

Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.