Quotes About Resilience

Marking success, for me, is walking onto a court and just walking off healthy, no matter if it is one minute or two minutes.

From Day One, I've always had to work to find my way onto the court or onto the top position or whatever it may be.

I don't have a death wish. On the contrary, I'm hanging onto my life like never before.

You might not have the biggest budget or resources or cast, but if you have a great story, people will latch onto it.

Unless you can't take care of yourself or stuff like that, I'm always standin' for you to hold onto life as much as you can.

When I go onto the field, I will always give 100% for my team, irrespective of who we are playing against.

It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling.

Having challenges in your life open doors for you.

As Muslim women, we're not waiting for the president of the United States to open doors for us or to fight our fights.

Fighting is just something that's gonna open doors for things to come in the future.

I just have an open mind - that's the way I live my life, just crossing the bridge when I come to it.

Having life taken away from you for a little while forces you to be more open-minded and to go live.

I've always defended Shania. She not only opened doors; she knocked several down.

From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life.

When I told my friends and family that I was leaving Stars to open a burrito shop in Denver, they thought I was crazy, but not long after the success of the first Chipotle, I knew I had to open just one more, so I opened a second one on Colorado Boulevard, which turned out to be even busier than the first.

Trixie Mattel has always opened doors for me. It's closed very few.

I never doubted myself when I opened my first restaurant. You've got to give 100% of yourself until you know you've done it. But it was still a struggle.

It felt like the world had ended when I was fired, but it actually opened the door for my next opportunity.

I remember being on my death bed, and I found out in the newspaper that the Barclays Center was opening and that they were going to have fights here and me not knowing if I would ever be able to box again, let alone perform here.

I was an opening act for 10 years.

'A Chorus Line' never dies; it just keeps opening doors and giving back to me - but there was a time when I considered it an albatross around my neck.

My parents raised me to believe that when one door slams in your face, turn around because there's probably another door opening up somewhere.

I'm proud of who I am. I'm proud of my history. I'm proud of the women and the men who came before us who are black, and I'm proud of the women before me who are black and who have achieved so much, even though we have so much against us, and we don't have those doors opening for us every day.

Any beginning is difficult, but when you're opening the newspaper every day, and it's all about how bad you are, sometimes even you begin to believe that.