Quotes About Resilience

I get why we don't want to be in pain, but there's something very essential about what happens when we're in pain and some of the growth that can come from it if we stare at it straight in the face.

It's easy to feel spurned, especially when you return to your apartment and stare at the hundreds of rejection letters tacked to your bulletin board.

When I walk out on to the court and everyone is staring, sometimes I wonder how my legs will carry me out there. That's forgotten as soon as I start playing.

As fighters, the stark reality is, there's times in that cage when we want out. There's times when we've had enough and we want out, and we're able to recognize defeat.

I'm bipolar, but I'm not crazy, and I never was. I'm stark raving sane.

Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

Basically, all my life I'd been told you can't do that because you're female. So I guess I just didn't pay any attention. I just went ahead and did what I could and then, when the stars aligned, I was ready.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

'Dancing with The Stars' is like learning a new sport with lots of bumps and bruises.

Everybody - even huge movie stars - have downs. That's just how it is. The work ebbs and flows. My manager and I were saying, 'Let's remember that in 2013 we were soooo busy.' So whenever it is that we're not, maybe it'll come back again. Maybe it won't. But you've gotta love the ride.

I was never a singer; I can't play any instruments; I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the great rock stars were male. I didn't have any template for what I was doing. I did what I did out of frustration and concern.

I personally have dealt with any adversity in my life with humor. That's why I told America to 'Read my hips!' on 'Dancing With the Stars' or was happy to play along with Jason Alexander and Jerry Seinfeld in the great restaurant scene on 'Seinfeld.'

Live music is proof that there's some things the Internet can't kill. In our lifetime, we're going to see more and more things start to disappear and get gobbled up by the Internet, but live music won't be one of them.

It ain't how you start out, it's how you finish.

If your life gets off to a rough start, just know this is helping you develop depth of personality and depth of character.

I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.

It's easy to give up. It's even easier to start pointing fingers.

Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.

Like many start-up stories, mine has been rocky.

Any kind of business or start-up you have, you're going to be faced with a lot of people who maybe don't believe in it or see the vision or just say no. The key is seeing beyond that and really trying to not let the no's get you down.

AAP is like a start-up. You do roles you would have never imagined.

In my first start-up, I didn't get any salary for four years, so I had to move back with my parents.

I can't promise you will succeed if you stick with your start-up. What I can promise is that if you give up, you won't possibly succeed.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.