Quotes About Resilience

One thing I've learned from my parents and from observing all the artists I've been lucky enough to grow up around is that you've got to be brave.

I think the best time to learn things is when you're hurt. Just sitting back and observing to see how you can be effective in certain parts of the games is important.

I have understood by observing blind people that they are very confident. They don't see themselves as suffering from a disability.

I don't obsess over mistakes, because they do happen, so I just keep working and training hard. I just keep helping the team, which is key.

Our culture is so obsessed with the idea that you're going to go through a crisis or some difficult event and come out the other side a changed or improved person, and I just think that if you're honest, that often does not happen, and in fact, it shouldn't happen.

The idea of the damsel in distress is fast becoming obsolete.

I'm going to learn from every obstacle.

It's an obstacle being a girl when you move all over and don't have half the things you need. It's like everything is wrinkled in your life.

In the NFL, you're always facing an obstacle.

Living in Flint, poverty is an obstacle that you have to fight through. I always had to fend for my brother and sister - I was always the one to sacrifice my meals so that they could eat.

Combating any kind of obstacle is much easier if you know that it's real and not your fault, and it's something you can fight against.

The secret in life is to make every obstacle into an opportunity.

Every time I step into the ring there is a different obstacle but I'm very confident in myself and my ability.

I don't believe in giving up. Though there are a lot of obstacles, heartaches and disappointments, you shouldn't allow these things to break you.

There came a point where I did give up on music, but I'm the kind of person that when I face obstacles, I become more determined. It's just something weird within me.

In hard times, North Carolinians have shown that we bounce back. But that's not by chance. It's because we are determined. Determined to tough it out. To help each other, and leave no one behind. Determined to turn our obstacles into opportunities.

The road to success has to have obstacles because, at the end of the day, when success comes, it will be that much better.

I'm frightened a lot. I feel like it's caused me a lot of obstacles.

If doing anything new, you're very used to having insurmountable obstacles.

I like to set up obstacles and defeat them.

There are always going to be obstacles. I think the bigger your aspirations, the larger the obstacles.

Every walk that I do, there's obstacles in the way. There's always somebody or something that comes across negative, but I live for that sort of thing.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

Real talent will get through whatever the obstacles.