Quotes About Resilience

My dad and his sister, who is no longer with us, used to dance on the streets for money. They had nothing.

Many trans women of color come from poverty and are forced to live on the streets. Their families have shunned them, and their remaining family are the friends they've come to rely on.

Boxing gave me the discipline and took me away from the streets and away from the corners. It changed my life, you know. Boxing dragging me away from all the bad potential I had.

Jazz came from the streets, hip-hop came from the streets. It's just a different language. It's all borne out of hard times, struggle, and the fight to have equality and things be better.

Kids in England will stop you on the streets and tell you bluntly they don't care for your current record. But it keeps you down to earth.

I used to run the streets, my mom used to be crying all the time, coming to get me out of the police station all the time. Sports took me off the street.

The idea of my parents was to keep us away from the streets. Gelsenkirchen is not a rich city. The crime is above average so they always tried to keep us away from bad things, and I think they were successful.

Growing up in Chicago is hard. I'd say 80 percent of the people ain't really got no daddies. Their household wasn't right. All they know is the streets and getting some money to support each other and support their family.

Your mom's working 9 to 5 every day and might get a second job. So you're really raising yourself, and you've got nobody else, so you go outside, and the streets raised most of us.

I remember I'd be playing in the streets with friends, sometimes barefooted. I'd come home with sore feet, but wanting to do the same the day after. That passion made us keep playing. Playing in the dirt was our daily joy.

Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

We must keep both our femininity and our strength.

The scars in my face are the source of my strength.

Being a caregiver requires infinite patience, physical and emotional strength, health care navigation skills, and a sense of humor - which can be hard to come by after sleepless nights and demanding days.

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength.