Quotes About Resilience

Don't let your upbringing, your surroundings, whatever situation you are living in, don't let those stop you from being the greatest you that you can be.

We've had a humble upbringing. You know, my father came through as a political refugee; my mother comes from a hard-working-farmers family. We've had humble upbringing.

Man. I've been through a lot as a kid. But at the same time that upbringing just made me stronger and made me more determined to make it out of where I made it out from and just fight extra hard to not go back.

My upbringing saved me.

Well, I have definitely had a very intense life and upbringing to say the least. I did have a beautiful young mom who loved me as much as she could but I still had to deal with all forms of abuse and hardships.

If you had met me as a kid you would have never predicted me to be a success. I had a pretty ropey upbringing and you might have thought I'd have gone the other way.

I've had the hardest upbringing of any fighter in England.

That's my upbringing. Try, if it doesn't work out, try again. It was the same thing with Parliament.

I had a rough upbringing. Group homes. Foster homes.

I had a very tough upbringing. We all had to do something called 'manual labour.' Mostly it meant getting up at 5 A.M. and cutting grass endlessly.

It's not how you start, even with a rough upbringing. It's what you make of it after.

I had a very rough upbringing.

It was definitely a challenging upbringing. My parents were by no means perfect.

My upbringing gave me a lot of backbone and prepared me well for showbiz. It could throw anything at me and I could take it.

I'd update my resume so you're ready for any outcome.

Our success just flies in the face of critics or people who would rather that we just failed... because we didn't fit into the style of the times or our lyrics were too upfront or too earnest or whatever.

Creating 'Upgrade' was really something I enjoyed even though it was stressful. I would do it all again.

Growing up, I had a face that people wanted to tell things to, and I grew up with adults who had so much to say. They had lived through decades of unbelievable poverty, starvation, political upheaval, chaos.

I have a brother and we lost our father when I was 15. And that was a big emotional upheaval in my life.

When I was in fourth grade, I had a lot of upheaval in my life. Both of my parents remarried, and we all got new houses. That was also the year my older brother got very sick.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

Nothing in my life has really ever been easy. I've always been someone who did it uphill.

People have so many preconceptions about me. I always knew it was going to be an uphill battle.

When I got shot, it changed my life tremendously, and put me on the right path. And that's when everything started happening there for me with boxing and my family and just everything. My life just took a big turn and started going uphill.