Quotes About Resilience

When I had no place to live and I had no place to sleep - and I did sleep in the Metro - I held steadfast to the fact that I had a dream, a reason why I'm doing this... that it was bigger than this moment.

So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance.

Americans - in general, we are very steadfast people: we know what we want; we get what we want.

It's been phenomenal, but everybody keeps congratulating me on my resurgence and my big comeback. I haven't been away, guys. I've been working steadily for the last 63 years.

I didn't get that great a launch as an actress, but slowly and steadily, I made my presence felt in the industry.

If you want to have the clarity and steadiness to deal with that '3:00 A.M. phone call,' you should better have made sure that you're not running on empty when that phone rings.

I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.

I said to de Lord, 'I'm goin' to hold steady on to you, an' I know you'll see me through.'

I have worked my way up in the food industry being strong and steady about who I am as a person, first and foremost, as a chef and professional, and certainly as a woman.

Even when I'm in a really great, steady and stable place... I'm clinically bipolar, so that always exists - a darkness always exists.

I'm 37 years old and don't have a steady paycheck.

There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended.

Preparedness for a game that usually lasts four-five hours requires good physical condition and also steady nerves.

I would say my whole first record, 'Steady On,' had a lot to do with healing.

My strong game was ping pong. Relentless... steady.

The record shows that I've kept a very steady hand on the helm throughout some enormous challenges.

Growing up, I never had a steady home.

It's important as a team that you don't get too excited with a win and you don't get too disappointed with a loss. You have to stay very steady, very focused on that middle ground.

I'm not, you know, the guy with the biggest game or the flashy shots. But, you know, just being steady, playing every points like it really matters, I think has been working.

The most important thing is to be steady and consistent.

When you cannot have steak, either you eat egg or you don't eat. So, in the end, you eat egg and you enjoy it.

My parents raised me and my siblings in an armor of advice, an ocean of alarm bells so someone wouldn't steal the breath from our lungs, so that they wouldn't make a memory of this skin.

You couldn't beg, borrow, or steal a job in 1931, 1932... it was really tough.

I am proud of who I am, and nobody's going to steal that.