Quotes About Resilience

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, 'Don't get comfortable, because we may not be here long.'

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

If the sun refused to shine, I'd still be loving you. If mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me.

Nobody hears a single word you say, but you keep on talkin' till your dying day.

If the sun refused to shine I would still be loving you When mountains crumble to the sea There will still be you and me

To be a Rock, and not to Roll...

What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

Just when everything seems to go along just fine, Life comes by and throws you its line.

Someday you will understand that life can't flow as you always planned.

When Grandma read me: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall . . . I never knew that Humpty's fall was something that someday comes to us all.

With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.

If a man has decided that he is going to bite off your nose no matter what happens to him in the process, the chances are he will succeed in doing it. He may be severely beaten up, too, but that will not stop him from carrying out his objective. That is the real fighter.

Eat. This time you're eating paper. The next time it's going to be glass.

No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.