Quotes About Resilience

I do what I want to do instead of what other people think I should do, and I'm kind of stubborn that way.

I've always been a stubborn kid.

That's why I kept wrestling - I'm too dumb to realize I can't win, so I keep wrestling until I ultimately succeed. I'm pretty dang stubborn.

I'm very stubborn and I don't like to lose.

I've always been a stubborn guy and you've got to beat me up before I'll start doing something.

I am not particularly disciplined, but I am stubborn like few.

I've always had confidence when it comes to athletics. It's sometimes stubborn to a fault.

There are young guys coming up, trying to make their name off me, and I'm a stubborn dude. I don't want to let that happen. That's very motivating.

In a kidnapping, you leave behind a lot of your baggage, like arrogance and stubbornness.

My stubbornness helped me for the first half of my career; I had that real determination to do it my way - I know the best way. That helped me from a 14-year-old to 25 in getting me to where I got to.

I make myself have energy. It's stubbornness in the face of cancer.

The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.

There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.

My stubbornness of wanting this fighting career has saved me.

My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. 'Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you're stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem - just move on to the next. 'Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.'

I do what I do. You like it, great. You don't, go listen to somebody else. I'm stickin' with the people who stuck with me.

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

If you're going through something, just know that you're gonna come out on the other side. You're going through it - you're not stuck there forever.

When I was signed to Quincy Jones before I went independent, he told me to rap what you know, and people will forever feel you. And I stuck to that, no matter how many people called me a devil worshiper, no matter how many people call me a cult leader. I stuck with rapping about what I know.

When the other kids started calling me nicknames, I knew everything was all right. I have a pretty big mouth, so they hit on that and began calling me Gatemouth or Satchelmouth, and that Satchelmouth has stuck to me all my life, except that now it's been made into 'Satchmo' - 'Satchmo' Armstrong.

I do get cast in the same role a lot, but the truth is, I just want longevity. The thing is, I'd rather be stuck in a stereotype than be nowhere. The whole typecasting thing started because of 'Reservoir Dogs.' And I did a bunch of other films like 'Wyatt Earp' and 'Free Willy,' but no one seems to remember those.

New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.

I'm still stuck in the Stonewall in 1968. I never left the Stonewall.

When I moved to Los Angeles, aged 54, I printed out Winston Churchill's phrase, 'Never, never, never give up', and stuck it on my fridge. I had no idea what was going to happen, but I knew I had to keep on going.