Quotes About Resilience

Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.

No one's perfect," I whisper. "It doesn't work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it." I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.

If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up again with my studies.

Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work. The sheer toil can be healthy and exhilarating.

If you set up an environment where failing is encouraged then you want to try everything. It's obviously the best way to work.

Things work in spite of me sometimes.

My work was not embraced for many decades. I would have killed myself if getting embraced affected me so much.

The more bitter the desert experience, the sweeter the water of the oasis. The more I understand myself, the more effectively I can work with others.

I'm always amazed at how people make work no matter how intense the pressure.

If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, you'll keep resentment far away.

Work hard, keep your nose clean, and just stick around.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure so I did ten times more work.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted - folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.

A bird does not give up flying today because it couldn't find any worms yesterday.

Because failure works double time, to get success, work triple time.

A great sense of commitment builds a hardworking spirit.

She remembered who she wasand the game changed.

Know this: whenever you think of leaving, a part of you has already left. But it's never too late to get it back.

The strength of your obstacle determines the weight of your potentials. The greater your potentials, the heavier your dunamis power must be.

Loosers want it but only through the easy way. If action taking were like reading a story book, loosers would only love to open the picture pages

Shape yourself before the world shapes you.

Confidence is a pencil best sharpened with paper.