Quotes About Resilience

Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.

What's unique about America is that the country itself was built upon oppression, it's in the very foundation.

I grew up learning firsthand what it was like to flee communism and oppression.

Whether it's microaggressions or blatant racism, it's always been a fight. We've been fighting oppression for 400 years and it will continue to be a fight.

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

No force, oppression, imprisonment, jail... nothing will stop me.

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

Due to hate, fear, and oppression, the North Koreans cannot help themselves.

Well, when you think about it black American culture evolved over three and a half centuries. Every minute under which they lived under oppression and they adapted to dealing with the fact that those freedoms were going to be cut off. They had to somehow make a life within all of those restriction, and they did.

We have to continue to empower each other... we do not have to live in this marginalisation, we do not have to live in oppression, but our fight to get out of it is not going to be an easy one.

If you think about it, hip-hop came out of nothing. It was a response to oppression.

The oppression is like nothing imaginable - I literally believed that Kim Jong-il could read my mind.

Because I have seen oppression, I know what it looks like.

I'd like to be the next Oprah financially, but I'm not a TV actor. I'm not someone with an entertainment background, I'm a cop. And I'm not afraid to go anywhere and get down and dirty.

I grew up in this weird, educationally elite but economically impoverished environment. Total 'Oprah' story.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

Optimism can be relearnt.

Optimism is the key.

True hopefulness and optimism is what leads one to dare. It is also what lifts one back up to dare again after a failed attempt.

My greatest influence has and always will be my mother. I admire her strength, fearlessness, and optimism.

What keeps athletes going is the optimism we are going to be able to compete again.

You have to look to the future with optimism instead of negative ideas. Take the good and the bad and face it head on.

I am full of optimism. The world hasn't beaten it out of me yet. And I'm going to work very hard to make sure that they don't.

Optimism - even, and perhaps especially in the face of difficulty - has long been an American hallmark.