Quotes About Resilience

It's not easy to go up the steps after a defeat. It's very difficult for me, for everybody, but we have to accept it.

In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.

Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps.

My goal and mission is to be very strong in avoiding back steps. I leave judgments, evaluations and analysis to the media, then to the observers.

There aren't any concrete steps to becoming a comic.

Anytime somebody climbs up those steps into the ring, they have a heart.

I feel rejecting rejection is one of the most crucial steps in getting past failure.

When you are under pressure, you make the bold steps faster; you don't make the bold steps slower.

When you operate from a nothing-left-to-lose mentality, it's essentially the same thing as the 'Law of Least Resistance.' You have a goal in mind, but you're not emotionally attached to the outcome. You're focusing on all of the little steps inbetween.

I will never forget standing with fellow members of Congress on the steps of the Capitol to sing 'God Bless America' on the night of 9/11.

I grew up a loser, and I always felt like one, but I turned out pretty okay. I may be living proof that you can spend your whole life feeling like you're falling down a set of steps and still maybe land on your feet at the bottom.

While the United States has often taken the wrong path, it has rarely failed to demonstrate - at least in the long run - the courage to reverse its steps.

If you have the mentality that Jon Jones has when he steps into the cage, no one will beat you on the mat.

We lived in the projects in Brooklyn, the elevator used to be broken, and we used to walk up 20 flights of steps and then walk down.

One of the cool things about 'Patti Cake$' is that it is about someone that is against stereotype.

I've shattered every negative stereotype people had about me.

I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through.

Spring is here, even in London N.1, and they can't stop you from enjoying it," he wrote in April 1946. "The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun, and neither the dictators, nor the bureaucrats, deeply as they disapprove of the process, are able to prevent it.

right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

C. P. Snow, the son of a church organist, recalled in 1940 being reassured by listening to Churchill. "He was an aristocrat, but he would cheerfully have beggared his class and friends, and everyone else too, if that was the price of the country coming through. We believed it of him. The poor believed it, as his voice rolled out into the slum streets, those summer evenings of 1940.

More than anything else, I have learned in researching this book that America is a moving target, a goal that must always be pursued but never quite reached.

They're gonna get us', she cried as he tried to hold her tight. She was like a wild animal fighting to escape. 'They come in the storm!' Fighting for its life. 'They come in the storm!

I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.