Quotes About Resilience

I learnt so much from all my films, successful or unsuccessful.

To the nameless and unsung heroes of our freedom struggle, we offer our humble tribute. Their life-blood nourishes the body of independent India.

You all must realize that Mandela was not the only man who suffered. There were many others - hundreds who languished in prison and died. Many unsung and unknown heroes of the struggle.

There are times I felt insecure or not sure: I'm unsure of myself, or I get nervous, but nerves are good. I try and embrace all those things. I try and embrace the times where I'm not sure of myself or I'm like, 'Is this going to work? Is this going to land?'

What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world.

For immigrant women, fighting for some of the standard platforms of the women's movement may feel unthinkable when deportation is staring you in the face every day.

I can't say there was a last straw because there have been so many straws, but certainly the horrors at the border, separating children from their parents, the torture, the kidnapping and the incarceration of them in cages was unthinkable, unbearable. When an opportunity presented itself to me to do something, I needed to take a leap.

Grit is that 'extra something' that separates the most successful people from the rest. It's the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

You don't appreciate life until you get to the other side. Like lying in a hospital bed.

Everybody's got plans... until they get hit.

Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!

I won't quit skating until I am physically unable.

Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

Change always seems impossible until it's inevitable.

Really, you don't lose until you stop trying.

One time, when I was in my teens, jamming in a Kansas City club, I was doing all right until I tried doing double tempo on 'Body and Soul.' Everybody fell out laughing. I went home and cried and didn't want to play again for three months.

Nothing is over until you quit.

When I was very little, I insisted on getting my own pair of heels. And no, the screaming and tears didn't help me get them until I was much older!

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn't speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn't speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family.

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.