Quotes About Resilience

I've never once heard my mom complain about her stroke.

My father was unwell when I was 11, had a stroke at 14 and died when I was 18. My mother going to work at seven in the morning and coming back to look after him and me and my brother left its mark on me.

You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.

Remember one thing about ESPN: People can be critical of them sometimes for being a large corporation but nine years ago I had a stroke and I couldn't talk. That's the way I made my living. ESPN could've dumped me very easy, but they didn't. They helped me and presented me an opportunity to get back on the air.

I had a stroke in December of '99, and it affected my left side - my fingering side.

I knew my first game at Everton wasn't going to be a stroll around the pitch.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go.

Anything can happen, so you have to control your attitude and stay strong.

My grandmother always told me that regardless of what the world gives you, stay humble. Stay strong in your beliefs, and be honest. And when you're wrong, be a man and say you're wrong. And be strong when you're right.

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

Politics is a messy business, but campaigning prepares you for governing. It prepares you to get hit, stand strong, and, if necessary, hit back.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

Darts is more psychological than anything... staying mentally strong.

Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.

You enter strong and you exit strong, and you're going to be OK.

We are not a fearful, small people. We are confident and strong, and we understand that much of our strength comes from the fact that we are a people of the planet.

God does things and put certain things in front of you to see how strong you are.

Strong characters are needed in the game.

Our liquidity is fine. As a matter of fact, it's better than fine. It's strong.