Quotes About Resilience

There's a photograph of me in the transplant unit where I have a vomit bucket under one arm, I have my laptop on my knees, and I'm crying, not because, you know, I'm about to have a bone marrow transplant, but because I've missed a deadline!

'Il faut vivre' might almost be the French national motto from 1940 to June 1944, but who is to say ours would have been any different if the Germans had paraded victoriously through London and Generalfeldmarschall Von Runstedt made his headquarters at Claridge's?

I feel like a voodoo doll. It's grim. It's gross.

During an economic slowdown, one needs to be cautious, but I think it's equally important to not get sucked into the vortex of defensive thinking.

There is a sense of resignation among most people who voted Remain that we have to 'man up' - even the women among us - and make the most of what we know will be a rotten Brexit.

In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death.

I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative.

You have to start with slavery because those abuses have never been eradicated. You know, people are not living in slums because they voted to. You know, their children are not in jail because they wanted them to. You know, these are the results of a people who have been oppressed and suffer national oppression, you know.

Britain has united to send a strong message to anyone who seeks to peddle hate. Together we are stronger. Together we can beat hate.

Every time I got close, somebody seemed to play a little better.

I've lived through what seems to most - and myself - many lives.

You can lose money, and you can lose all sorts of things, but you can't lose your self-confidence.

I have a self-defense mind. I've had it all my life.

I have been in a 'man's' world as long as I can remember. I was an engineering major in college, I am a sports entertainer in the WWE, and I teach self-defense.

At some point, parents may become inured to a child's self-destruction, but I never did.

I think we all go through those moments of self-doubt.

Sometimes you can't write a novel for weeks and weeks, but it's good for your self-esteem to work on something else.

No matter how I might feel about myself or my self-image, there is still a part of me that wants to fight to the end.

We have to learn how to manage self-inflicted pressure.

Being self-made means doing things your own way - and doing it without any handouts.

I don't have time for self-pity. I don't see the point in dwelling on the past.

People send everyone hate mail. That's the way the world works right now, I'm nothing special.

You have to keep on disrupting. If you let up the pressure, then al-Qaeda senior leadership will come back.

I am 17 years old and a senior in high school. I am also, like thousands of other people living on this planet, sick.