Quotes About Resilience

And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse.

Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work

My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was devoted and a hard worker.

My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.

Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.

Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

I do not have answers to all the problems, but for sure will work to find solutions to as many as I can.

The wishbone will never replace the backbone.

If you stick to your work it will take care of you somehow.

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.

I do not take things to the heart. I calculate and I do what needs to be done. If I were to start acting emotionally, it would destroy my work.

In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.

The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened to all the people during the course of my life who said, "You can't. You'll fail. It won't work. You don't have...," I wouldn't be here today.

Friends and family will tell you why your ideas won't work. Most are left-brained employees and specialists and NOT entrepreneurs.

Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.

I have a natural propensity to work on big piles of poop.

Hard work is always hard work, for young gymnasts and old gymnasts. Whoever can handle this will be a champion.

I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart.

Don't let people tell you your ideas won't work.

I feel threatened, and sometimes it makes me angry because I can't do anything about that, there's just too many issues. But in a way I think my work is meant to get people out of that.

Even if your body doesn't work the way it used to, the heart and the mind and the spirit are not diminished.

I often thought my constitution would never endure the work I had to do, (but) the Lord said to me: 'Daughter, obedience gives strength.'