Quotes About Resilience

I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.

Sonny Liston stood up to me and actually made me give ground. No one has ever done that to me before or since.

You know, once you've stood up to cancer, everything else feels like a pretty easy fight.

What we, as African Americans, stood on was our faith.

I think of Harriet Muse as one fierce lady. She couldn't read. She had no education. She did labor her whole life. And she stood up to Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey at a time where she was told where to work, where to sit, and she demanded that they pay attention to her.

There was a phase when I cried for days and doubted my decision to be an actor when my films were not doing well. But soon I stood up and decided to do something that could set me apart. I decided to excel in what others didn't have, I focused on my actions and my fitness.

I would say I am an ordinary bowler but one with a really big heart, and that's what has stood me in good stead in all these years.

Growing up with my brothers all boxing has stood me in good stead for nights like these. You should have seen some the fights we used to have in our front room.

Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out.

The blind date that has stood you up: your life.

I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted.

I like George W. At a time when this country was hit hard, he stood up for America. He's been the leader of the free world during the hardest time America's ever had.

I'm someone who loses 80 to 90 percent of the time. Even when I lost, I put my body on the line and I told the best story. If I stood out, if my attitude towards fighting was different, I found a way to stay around and keep revamping myself and my character.

Steven Gerrard was someone I looked up to massively. I'd always try to copy him, right down to the boots he was wearing. It was his attitude on the pitch that stood out - you could really see how much he hated losing.

In the wake of such bad news, it was heartening to know that what 'Sense8' stood for meant so much to so many people.

eSpeed took the worst that the world could dish out, and it still stood and performed.

I still feel that the original 'Karate Kid' is the great piece of work that has stood the test of time. It's a bit of soulful magic.

I have stood on my own feet.

I've always been alone, done things by myself and stood stronger than the others.

If I wasn't the sort of character that I am, if I was shy, I would have been intimidated by it. I stood up to it; I used to have arguments every day in the street. I was constantly told I wanted to be a boy. People used to say I was a boy.

I've had doors slammed in my face, I've been shouted at in my face in meetings when I've stood up for myself.

We all had to dodge the idea we were spokespeople for our races. Like, 'Hey, it's the Mexican Guy! The Filipino! The Chick!' We've always stood up to it and said, 'Fine, bring it on and we'll show you how we rock.'

We've stood by who we are and we didn't listen to anyone else.

I remember so many times, playing for City in which Man United would give us a whooping, and the fans always stood beside us.