Quotes About Resilience

What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can't do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad.

Being American means you never have to say you surrender.

Surrender is working with what happens.

Israel will never surrender to hatred.

In my head the word surrender has never existed, because that is what Real Madrid is about.

We are not going to surrender nor dishonor ourselves nor get on our knees whatever price we have to pay.

What does it mean to be a superhero? We're all fighting for the better good. But, at the same time, I think what stands out is, as superheroes, you don't give up; you don't surrender. I think that's what makes a superhero.

Every role is a new form of surrender.

With The King Center as her base, my mother pressed on to fulfill a role that changed lives and legislation. She was a woman who refused to surrender the reigns of what she knew to be her assignment, even when male civil rights and business leaders tried to convince her that she should leave the work of building her husband's legacy to them.

People say I'm a pain in the rear, but we surrender to people who say we are pains the rear.

I haven't had an easy life, but at some point, you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be. I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.

I'll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren't so painful any more-not so raw or so new.

There is no apprenticeship to misfortune. When it strikes us, we still have everything to learn.

My ancestors did not come over on the Mayflower--they met the boat. --Will Rogers

My heart is broken," she goes. "It's turned to a piece of stone. I'm no good. That's what's as bad as anything, that I'm no good anymore.

When you live in the dark for so long, you begin to love it. And it loves you back, and isn't that the point? You think, the face turns to the shadows, and just as well. It accepts, it heals, it allows. But it also devours.

How far would you run with a piece of lead in your heart?

In short, everything about his life was different for him at the bottom of that well.

life was a stone cutting and grinding...

If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive.

After a little while I felt a little better, but very little. I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor.

Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid

However hard I try to be nice I always end up with my nose in the dirt and my thumb feeling for somebody's eye.