Quotes About Resilience

I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me.

I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.

You have to kind of roll with the punches. That's why I think work begets work to a certain degree. I just try and keep busy.

Expect Nothing, Do Your Work, Celebrate.

Your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you're doing is just plain junk.

I'm not a gentle pony... I promise you, you will have to work to keep your seat.

The only thing that gets me through any type of pain, emotional or physical, is to make it worthwhile by putting it into my work.

If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work

I had to work 10 times harder. People expect so much of you, because they want to see if you can strive and stand on your own.

It takes courage to stay young, to make your enthusiasms work for you. Don't let anyone drag you down.

There are three sayings I live by, and one of them is 'The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.' That's what losing a job is like. That's why we have to bring them back.

My dad had even hired an accompanist to play for me on a piano. But he had never pushed me to music because I don't think he wanted me to be hurt as much as he was if it didn't work.

Rachel, you summon demons. You're good at it. Get over it, then find a way to make it work for you. It's not going to go away.

What will I do when I can no longer dig?

Leaving a great organization and a lucrative contract is not easy, but it allows me to take a deep breath and work on things that can make me a better driver and a better person.

It used to be said of a man who had suffered a catastrophic setback in his line of work that he had been handed his head on a platter. We are being handed our heads with tweezers now.

The road can get rocky, but you have to find ways to work through it.

When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

I have to find work wherever it might be hiding.

Collaboration. ... For me, it has informed every move I've ever made. And it saved me in many ways and still does. When things get hard, you can cling to the work.

If your life works, and you work in it, then it's okay, whatever is happening is okay.

Hey. What is it that famous person said? 'It'll all work out in the end, and if it doesn't, that means it's not the end yet'?

We don't want to get frustrated because it sticks in your mind too much. We have to work at it and see what we did wrong.

My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.