Quotes About Resilience

All good sports reporters know that the best stories are in the loser's locker room.

The power of the human spirit inspires me. Movies, books, stories, people, anything that reminds us that we are more than just this physical body and our capacity for love and courage can bend reality.

Everybody has those stories that make them wince when they think about them silently. But as soon as you tell that story, it becomes a little bit less cringe-inducing.

You learn a lot more from stories about getting rejected than stories about becoming happy.

There are so many stories about boys becoming heroes, learning their powers and becoming incredibly heroic. There have to be those stories for girls, too.

I don't want to tell sad stories about myself. We may not have had a lot to spend when I grew up, but my childhood was good. The public likes to hear a dramatic story. They want a star to rise, have a meltdown and then return to greatness. Very American.

When we reach reflexively for something to dull an ache inside of us, in that very moment of reaching, we are hiding from our pain. We're storing it away. Tamping it down.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

I've always said, 'Before you see the rainbow, it has to storm.'

After a storm comes a calm.

Remember to play after every storm.

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

God didn't give up on me. I am somebody in God's eyes... Let me be a prime example of how I've been through the storm and the rain, and I made it over.

When you are in the eye of the storm, you are often not aware of the whiplash around you.

You can learn to prevent a storm, or you can learn to ride the storm. If you learn to ride the storm, the storm is not a problem anymore.

I want the legacy of Chi Chi Devayne to be a damn good performer that came from nowhere and took the world by storm.

You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.

Sometimes when you're in the storm, it's harder and maybe when it's over, then you can look back on it.

We are facing a storm that most of us have long feared.

I've been through my fair share of highs and lows. Yes, I've been written off, and it amazes me, and it amuses me, also, when I'm written off by the press cause then I tell them that's just the lull before the storm. And every time I've been down, I've been down, never out. So it just makes me work a lot harder.

A lot of times when you're making a record, you put your head down and charge forward until you're done. You just hope that the ideas hold up, because you're kind of lost in your own storm.

Music in New Orleans has always been the heartbeat that drives the city. It was that even before Katrina, and that's what we had to rely on after the storm.

I remember trying to turn one of my Barbies into Storm, and I melted her hair off.

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.