Quotes About Resilience

My kids are the reason I continue to strive for something better. They know - as kids who are Muslim, Somali, black Americans - that they've always been part of a struggle and that change isn't easy.

Even though you strive for perfection, you're never going to play the perfect game.

Sometimes it's not always perfect, and there are mistakes, and you pick yourself up and move on. I've learned you can't be a perfectionist. I still strive to do my best in every area, but I've learned to let go.

I'm always someone who wants to strive to prove someone wrong or show something that maybe they haven't seen.

I have to strive to go two steps forward and realize that, sometimes, there will be one step back.

My plan growing up was to leave home and try not to panic. I always knew that to strive to be self-sufficient was an important ambition.

If we strive and continue fighting as best we can, we can overcome a lot of the personal and professional problems that we do have.

Strive for extraordinary, don't moan, and sleep when you're dead.

You've just got to take things the way they are and accept them and strive.

I came to understand and observe that we're all going to face obstacles. We're going to have challenges. We're going to fail. We're going to have success. But all of it is going to ultimately be character-building. And it's not going to deter us from wanting to achieve, to strive, and be successful.

We can't control everything in our lives. Sometimes you're No. 2, 3, 4 or 5. That doesn't matter. What matters is that you strive to be No. 1.

I have to play hard and at the end of the day I still have to strive to protect myself and so does everybody in the league.

The world has been broken into millions of pieces, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't strive.

When you get a little knockback in your career, it gives you something to strive for.

If I have a centre back giving me stick, I want to score and say, 'shut your mouth!' It makes me strive, man.

People striving, being knocked down and coming back... this is what builds character in a man.

Outwardly, I may look quiet, but deep inside, I'm full of this sense of challenge. I'm always striving to work harder, to improve by learning, to do better and keep dreaming.

Whether you're working on becoming a more patient parent or you're striving to become an elite athlete, building mental strength will help you reach your goals.

It is in the failures of our striving that we find ourselves, and it is then, in the rising above them and trying again, that we carry ourselves to the next level. If the runner stumbles, they get up and run again.

If you're constantly striving for questions that are never going to be answered, then you're only being detrimental to your own mental health.

You're always striving to get better, and I would get in my own way sometimes or stop myself if I felt it wasn't as good as it should be. You're going to fall on your face a couple of times, and the lesson is to get back up.

Striving to make music that empowers people as opposed to making them feel like they're being beaten down every single day is so important.

I have to keep pushing and keep striving, and also keep being me on the field.

I had internal bleeding with blood clots on the brain. I was completely blind and deaf. I had a heart attack and a stroke.