Quotes About Resilience

You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.

I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.

I was ashamed for people to see me struggle.

It's always a struggle growing up in Akron.

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.

My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.

It took me 11 years to struggle through one dumb book, and every day you just want to give up. But you don't find out you're an artist because you do something really well.

Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.

Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community.

As I get older the stars have gone from my eyes more, and I see that life is just something that has to be lived with, that it's better not to struggle.

My wife says I'm only comfortable when there's a fight. And it's true. The thing that motivates me is struggle.

The fact that I didn't have a mom is a challenge; it was a struggle; and we made the best of it, and because of that my relationship with my dad is that much stronger.

I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.

I'm glad I've had to struggle. It's made me the artist I am now.

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

My mom got 11 kids. We struggled.

I'd always struggled with being a very depressed and anxious person in high school. If I had let that kind of dark moment consume me, I wouldn't be able to climb out of it. So I became a bit of a shark.

I want to let little kids know that no matter what situation they come up in, that they're not exempt from success. All I ever wanted was for people to believe in me and just recognize my potential. I came, I struggled, I made it, I conquered.

I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.

Growing up, I wasn't a big guy; I struggled to hold on to the ball.

I've struggled just as much as anyone else.

I struggled with feeling confident for a long time, but I think it's important to be strong and not compromise for anyone or a relationship - I'm drawn to that.

I lived for two years in an abandoned gas station with no running water and no electricity after my parents got divorced and my stepdad couldn't get a job. So I think a lot about families like mine who were middle class and struggled. So that experience really drives my philosophy.

Growing up, my family struggled to make ends meet, so I know how important organizations like The Salvation Army are for families to lean on in times of need.