Quotes About Resilience

I think with challenges, you either overcome them or you fall behind and become a statistic.

Every step of the way, life was hard. I was supposed to be a statistic.

You can't statistic through your whole life.

I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.

I don't get bothered about statistics. If somebody had pointed out to me the odds of my being a working actress getting paid for what she does, I probably would have quit early in the game.

You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

I am happy with what comes, I don't have expectations of any stature.

People like me might be small in stature, but they can also act.

There have been other players of a similar build and stature to myself - slim, if you like - who have come here and shown a physical resilience in the way that I hope to as well.

We all have something about ourselves that we'd change if we could in a perfect world, be it our body image, our financial status, our relationship, whatever. I wanted to talk about how nobody's exempted from the realities of life and all those things.

In my professional and personal life, when I meet people who feel broken after a divorce, they can usually be divided into two categories: those who truly believe there's something wrong with them, and those that are using their status as armor.

That may be the ultimate definition of toughness inside the squared circle - having the will to overcome a serious injury to return to elite status as a main eventer.

I appear to have had more comebacks than Status Quo.

If you step out and do what you feel is right... and you're not attacking a person, and you're attacking a process, and you're attacking the status quo... and if somebody wants to hold a grudge against me, that's on them. It's not on me, and I'm going to do what I think is right.

If you are broken, you do not have to stay broken.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

It's not how fast you get there, but how long you stay.

So the pie isn't perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.

It's easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it's easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

Bad days don't always stay.

I had to develop the mentality and stay positive about making my comeback.

Soldiers, I intend to stay here, not only as long as a man remains, but as long as a piece of a man is left.

John Gresham Machen

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.