Quotes About Resilience

Over last 30 odd years, Kashmir has seen many highs and lows when looked at from the perspective of the security scenario, infiltrations and militancy on the ground.

It had been an odd, kind of rough year for me when 'CSI' ended.

I look in the mirror and see new lines every day, I'll see the odd grey hair - but this is life.

Being a hungry artist, you don't have the luxury of buying whatever you want. There were years of me doing a lot of odd jobs, this and that just to make ends meet.

When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let it go. A sort of emptying out occurs, a giving up on the world that seems oddly familiar even if you've never done it before.

I'm not at all interested in the brave who fight against the odds and win. I am interested in those who accept their lot, as that is what many people in the world are doing. They do their best in ghastly conditions.

The odds were against us, but we deserve to be where we are.

We fight, even against insurmountable odds, because sometimes we win.

My advice to young entrepreneurs is not to accept defeat in the face of odds, and challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction.

I've been defying the odds my entire life.

My story was not a football story. My story was more about going against the odds of what life was handing me.

When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.

That's when you know you're the greatest: when you're the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

I come from a place, with all due respect, who's never had a music star in hip-hop. So the odds is already against me.

I like to be against the odds.

I keep defying the odds, you know.

I started modeling when I was 16. The odds were against me. At 5' 8, I was shorter than most girls in the business. Still, I gave it a shot, and like with most things in my life, I never gave up.

'Striker' is a story of the human spirit triumphing over all odds.

But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.

'Roots' focuses on a particular group of people who defy the odds and win, eventually, even if it isn't in their lifetimes. This is, for me, a very positive story and a very empowering one, if only we have that perspective on it.

My thing with the Secret Six is that they never win. The odds are always against them; everyone wants them gone. So they never win. But they never give up, either.

I want children to know that they can create the life they dream of despite the odds that are against them.

Working 16-hour days to ensure that I can pay my bills has been a bulk of my entrepreneurship life. And on days when I don't, odds are I'm running to the airport.

To battle the odds - loss of interest, no funding, discouragement - requires someone who doesn't give up.