Quotes About Resilience

Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.

As cliche as it sounds, when one door closes, another one opens. Whenever I've gotten bad news about something, within a week or two there's another opportunity that brings new hope or keeps me motivated.

If god closes one door, he opens 10 other doors. I believe Im alive today to achieve something. Set the goal and work relentlessly without fear.

I don't operate on fear, and I don't let fear control me.

Of all the surgeries I've had, there's not much left to operate on. I am totally bionic.

Doctors didn't know if I would survive. The cancer was too big to operate on, so they blitzed it with chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

I admire people who operate from a place of love and who have gone through the rigorous process of finding and articulating their purpose, whatever it may be.

FCA is a culture of leaders and employees that were born out of adversity and who operate without sheet music.

One of the real core competencies of Blackwater, or companies like Blackwater, is we can operate in difficult places without any outside support.

When you lose someone you have two choices. You can stay stuck where you are or you can say, 'I am now on my own, my life has changed and I need to change the way I operate.'

Football has done so much for me, given me friends, family, given me life lessons that now I can use in the operating room or just as a leader.

On my left knee I have a long scar from an ACL operation. I've had both knees reconstructed.

After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.

It was very difficult in 2007. I was out for a long time after an ankle operation in Antwerp, then when I returned, I was not at my best, of course.

The operation left me very emotional. I cry a lot anyway. I've always been the type to feel hurt easily, but now I hit rock bottom.

In a funny way, the illness spurred me on. I thought to myself, 'I've got to get through this operation to make a blues album.'

I've had an operation on my jaw - I don't have the big jaw anymore - and I've also had an operation on my eyes.

I fought back, got injured again and I had to have another operation. I got down and depressed and I think I was drinking more than I should. Well, I know I was.

I had a shoulder problem during my career when I changed my service action and needed an operation.

There were some medical emergencies at home, be it my wife's brain tumour operation, my father's cancer. Eventually we lost him in 2018.

I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.

I've had a lot of operations. I'm kind of like Franken-actor.

A couple of back operations didn't cure anything, but instead, things got worse and worse and worse.

Through all the hardships and all the operations and all the hospitals, all that stuff each part of my life, there's been some goodness, some greatness that comes in here and helps me to be strong, to continue what I'm doing.