Quotes About Resilience

We must reject the easy impulses of bitterness and rancor and embrace the difficult work, but the important work, the vital work of finding a path forward together.

Louisiana's rural communities are vital to the strength of our state.

I often say that the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

I can feel the gradual decline of energy and vitality. And I mean generally, every year, when you know you are not on the same level as last year. But that's life.

It's amazing, as a player and as a coach, how you always remember the tough losses better than the victories. They're just way more vivid.

We need leaders who are able to vividly remember how it feels to experience hardship, trauma and pain, who make us feel less alone.

When the war started, we became refugees, and it was a really tough time. I was six years old. These were really hard times. I remember them vividly, but it's not something you want to remember or think about.

I grew up with very little. I remember vividly using buckets of water to shower.

I vividly remember sixth grade. It's the year when kids turn mean, and it's definitely no longer okay to cry in public. So we force our hot tears back, and they burn our throats all the way down.

I remember very vividly going to school, being very happy, and then just having guys there who were just out to make my life miserable.

Of all the great moments at Butler, I still remember the losses most vividly. I don't know why. I guess that's kind of what drives you.

When I say dirt-poor, I mean Mom made maybe $25,000 a year. I remember buying milk with food stamps. Vividly. So, growing up, I was the minority.

They say, 'Nothing can be done here!' I reply, 'I know no such word in the vocabulary I adopt!'

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

Fear isn't in my vocabulary in terms of how I approach a fight.

Tired is not a word in my vocabulary.

I don't sing now, because I had polio when I was 15, bulbar polio. This was when the epidemic was happening. And I was lucky that it didn't affect my lungs or my legs. It went to my face and kind of paralyzed my vocal chords, and I wasn't able to sing. And they said I was very lucky that I would get over it, which I did.

I never had vocal lessons, dance classes, or any of the things my peers had.

You have to be very vocal about being willing to fight anyone.

My mom is one of those women... she don't take no mess. She is very vocal about what she wants and what she doesn't want.

I had an explosion on my vocal chord.

If someone doesn't want to hire me because they think I'm too vocal, fine. I will do a play. I will always find a job. Let them try to get me out of this industry. I am not going to be silenced!

I have a lot of security - I lost my mother to the Taliban because of a lack of security - and that explains partly why I can be so vocal.