Quotes About Resilience

Covid has been a strain on all of us in some form or fashion.

America has always had an apocalyptic strain. Yet it also seems to believe that if, or when, The End comes, it will still come out on top.

The idea of physical strain and discipline, the question of how and when you leave that life behind - they're things I'm familiar with on one level or another.

You know, I spent parts of six seasons in the minor leagues and I dealt with some injuries there, I saw a lot of things. I had the safety net of being a first-round pick, so I didn't maybe necessarily experience some of that hardship firsthand, but I watched it break a lot of guys. The strain that it puts on you and your family, it's really tough.

These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered.

I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, 'I went through something really strange and awful and it has altered me forever.'

I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.

I was at number one in Australia with both my album and my single. And then I was told I had cancer. I thought, 'What a strange turn of events.'

This is the strange thing about South Africa - for all its corruption and crime, it seems to offer a stimulating sense that anything is possible.

It is kind of a strange thing when you face things in your life, you know like addictions, that often you will find that you will deal with it a little bit but then you will slip back into old ways.

It's a strange world, the goalkeeping world.

My mother arrived in Brussels in 1938 from a small town near Krakow. But strangely enough, in 1942 or 1943, she was taken back to Auschwitz, which was just 30 miles from where she grew up. Her parents died there and a lot of her family.

I never knew my father. He'd disappeared from the scene before I was born, and I still have no idea who he is. Perhaps strangely, it's never bothered me; I certainly don't believe it's really affected me.

When you're getting to do what you want to do, you just assume you're going to hit a point where someone is like, 'No, you can't do that.' Strangely, that never happened.

It's strangely energizing to have people who don't make music themselves take potshots at you from the Internet.

I'm no stranger to pain. It's what made me.

Obviously, resilience matters. I was no stranger to adversity, but it's different when it's personal. Not something I would recommend.

I don't have a problem with conflict. I'm not a stranger to high-pressure situations. I've been there, believe me.

Historically, science-fiction and fantasy literature is no stranger to controversy, but it has learned how to adapt and endure.

We must make every effort to extend a hand to the stranger, and continue to fight to make sure we don't give up on our American values.

I'm not a stranger to the persecution that Muslims have faced over the years.

India is no stranger to crises - wars, hijackings, plane crashes - we have seen them all.

We are no strangers to hurricanes in South Carolina. These storms are part of life, especially in the Lowcountry and all along our coast.

Having strangers bash you is something you never get used to.