Quotes About Resilience

Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.

I've got a great support group, real and true friends and I'm moving forward with my life. I was sad and wanted to make things work but I'm completely fine now. I'm moving on.

It will work out, somehow. That's a hell of a duo right there, Marbury, Crawford and Houston.

There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some other man's today... and will come around for me tomorrow.

I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.

No matter what responses you get from your work, you have to be determined not to give up on your dreams!

I didn't have the worst childhood, but I didn't have the best, and when you grow up like that, you have certain limitations invariably stuck inside you. Slipknot was a way to work it out.

New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone.

I'm not tired of the work... I'm tired in the work.

There's an old saying that when it gets tough the tough get going. You have to work your way through these things.

At first it was difficult for me to draw. My right hand doesn't work anymore so I had to train myself to use my left hand. But I persevered. The first one I ended up finishing was the duck.

You just work through it. You just hang in there.

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

Everything works out how it should.

Through my handicaps, I have found my self, my work, my God.

All of a sudden, I was hearing stories about how difficult I was to work with, ridiculous rumors about drugs and what a diva I was. I never had to go to rehab or a program.

You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the next time.

Life has a way of working out the way it's meant to.

A hero is someone who rebels, or seems to rebel, against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them, but obviously that can work at moments.

Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid.

The biggest thing is not to lose your confidence and realize you've got to work through those mistakes to yourself a chance to improve.

The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.

I went and did some things [rehab], and then of course my life didn't change that much [for a while], but I never missed work.

Just because you're not sweating doesn't mean you're not putting in the work.