Quotes About Resilience

I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.

Once it gets to two strikes, it's time to battle, put something in play, and try to get the job done.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

One of the hallmarks of the American spirit is the desire to help each other when disaster strikes.

It feels good when guys reach out to be inspired - and you have shown people an example of how you can come back and be better than you were before when adversity strikes; and when the world predicts the opposite, you show them you not only can be successful but be great.

It's harder than ever to build an enduring company. As soon as a product strikes a nerve with customers, competitors emerge globally because the costs to start are so low.

Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S.

I feel that when someone is ignored, that person strikes even harder.

We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response.

The people in the United States are some of the most generous people in the world. We saw it in Haiti. We saw it with Katrina. When devastation strikes, American people want to step up.

I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition.

I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn't you? It strikes me that that was a huge event. It's kind of funny and horrible and interesting, so why wouldn't one write about that?

You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.

You are not always going to have your A game; you might have your D game. You have to find a way to throw strikes no matter what.

When you don't have one that you throw for strikes - they are good hitters - they can cancel out one pitch and go to another. Now I have four pitches. If one's not working, I've got three others. It makes the game totally different.

If I'm ready to hit early, if I get fooled, then whatever. I've still got two more strikes.

Before I started school striking I had no energy, no friends and I didn't speak to anyone. I just sat alone at home, with an eating disorder. All of that is gone now, since I have found a meaning, in a world that sometimes seems shallow and meaningless to so many people.

It's tough to strike out. Believe me. I hate striking out. It's no fun. It's embarrassing. But there really isn't anything I can do. It's just a part of my game.

What is so striking about Liberia is that in a place where there is so much to be done, I have never seen so many people with nothing to do.

I know there's not a man in the world in any of the striking arts that would just run over me.

I'm upping my game in all aspects - striking, Jiu Jitsu, wrestling - so I can be ready for every single thing.

Trying to conceal the fact that I was a gay, effeminate, hyperactive, adopted child with a serious lisp in southern Louisiana would have been like trying to hide Dolly Parton in a string bikini!

I was a third string guy for a couple of years.

I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over.