Quotes About Resilience

I think I'm just more adaptable now, so danger, overall, seems less dangerous to me.

The great lesson I get from 'Moby-Dick' is that when the times are bad, when there is great foreboding, there are still ways to go about living. It's through Ishmael that I find a kind of overall cosmic approach to a meaningful life in this meaningless world.

There's two facets of this game. You know, if I'm not making shots, OK, then I have to do something on defense. So if I'm missing shots or making shots, it doesn't affect my overall game.

The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.

Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore.

I believe I overcame a lot.

I overcame a lot of things, growing up, as everyone does.

It seems that whenever America faced a challenge, it faced it and overcame it.

I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood.

People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.

There's always going to be bumps in the road. There's always going to be this and that, adversity. You just overcome it. It's what I've done all my life.

He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

Challenges are meant to be met and overcome.

There are moments when the human body can overcome things you would never expect.

It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

I had to overcome a lot of barriers. Until 1947, it was illegal for people from the subcontinent to migrate to the U.S. The subcontinentals were the last ethnic minority to gain citizenship. You assimilate. My name was too hard. They said, 'Shad is what we are calling you.' You go with the flow.

You have to be strong and calm to overcome difficult moments.

Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them.

I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.

It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

I have overcome some demons in my path.

It's been hard for me since the beginning. I have to overcome obstacles every day.