Quotes About Resilience

Fighting the ongoing war in your day-to-day life, everybody has their battle going on that nobody else knows about.

I'm Hackney born and bred and find it hard to call anywhere else home despite the extreme ongoing gentrification which gets me down.

I have experienced a lot of online bullying because I am homeschooled.

Many people decide to jump from niche to niche, as they cannot find success immediately with the niche that they have chosen for their online business.

I was an only child, a hard-case kid, in a rough neighborhood. But I always fought my battles.

I'm an only child, so I don't come from a big family. But it has been my observation from friends who do come from big families that usually, when you have a family fight, on the back end you come out better and stronger for it.

My dad was an only child. His father raised him all but alone after his mother abandoned the two of them. He was only three years old.

There's only one thing people love more than their heroes, and that's stomping them into the ground.

Whatever terrible things may have happened to you, only one thing allows them to damage your core self, and that is continued belief in them.

I think the kids in school that laughed at the clothes that we wore and the house that we lived in, and then my mother had to cut hair... I think that was a good motivator. Every time they laughed at me, they just built a fire, and there was only one way to put it out - to try and show 'em I was as good as they were.

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

For people who have been ostracized, who have been all the way at the bottom, there's only one way that we can go - and that's up.

There's only one way to get strong. You work at it.

There's only one way to play this game since I was a little kid - play fast, play physical, play strong.

The only time I won't be playing is when I've got a hangover.

My first stand-up experience, like most comics, was horrible. I got booed offstage. I thought I was funnier than I was. But the walk from the back of the room to the stage was the most excited I'd ever been about anything in my life other than kissing a girl. That's how I knew I had to get back onstage and do it again.

I want to be able to deliver the kind of show that I want - to go onstage with my chin held up.

I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.

When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop.

These guys were always saying, 'The minute you get onstage, it's great, no matter how much you're hurting.' But that didn't work for me. There were some nights I did not want to get out there.

What people don't normally know about us is the hustle is very real, and it's sorely driven a lot by how we consider ourselves. We don't pay a whole lot of attention to any type of judgment that we might get from outside people. I think that comes from growing up onstage.

Whatever you hold onto that you want to do, and that other people tell you you are foolish to want to do - don't give up.

Show business is like a bumpy bus ride. Sometimes you find yourself temporarily juggled out of your seat and holding onto a strap. But the main idea is to hang in there and not be shoved out the door.

I don't work with a lot of pressure, you know? I don't think, 'Oh, this one has gotta work or I'm finished.' I just kind of get onto the next one.