Quotes About Resilience

The biggest part of what Anita Hill did was take away the stigma of coming forward, and it took a lot for her to do that. We don't have these conversations, because of the fear that people won't believe you or you'll get attacked if you come forward. She came forward anyway and continued to tell her story.

Even with me going to prison, it could have put a bad stigma on my name. But you keep going. When people see you in a low situation, when people see you fight, they respect you for it.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.

Even if the flower is no more, still, the fragrance can be.

I still believe in a place called Hope.

I'm still ghetto. That's not going to change. I'm never going to change my culture.

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up... and we're still fighting it.

Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.

I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.

I still carry it with me that I'm a I-AA guy and I had to go down to the minor leagues in college football and prove who I was.

Adversity is a stimulus.

There are a whole host of psychological phenomenon humans have developed to protect ourselves from the sting of failure, from holding ourselves less accountable for our failures than we do other people, to letting our fear paralyze us and keep us from even trying.

I've never really had a sense that I am just Mrs. Sting. Indeed, I am Mrs. Sting and very proud and very happy that I am still Mrs. Sting, as opposed to Mrs. ex-Sting. But I'm a very busy person, so I've always done things and got on with my life.

I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.

Being aware of challenges doesn't make them sting less, but once you see them, you can assess the best way to handle them.

The sting of losing is bad.

Coaches often sting me to get the best of me. I am used to it.

The court of public opinion should not matter, but we're all human. And sometimes things sting. But I think you have to be willing to shake it off, and to not fall in love with the applause either.

Everybody's got a 'thing.' Some 'things' are nice and quiet. Some 'things' have fangs and claws. Some 'things' stink and have slobber everywhere.

A few years after 'Melrose Place,' when the luster of 'Melrose Place' wore off and what was left was just the stink, and I was just doing bad TV movies, that was a personal low point. I felt I needed to stop doing those, and I did.

Losing definitely does stink.

Keep your eyes open. Make mistakes - because you will anyway - and remember that small stuff stinks but that it's also essential.