Quotes About Resilience

What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me - cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.

Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.

Not many people get to the major leagues and succeed right away. There are some struggles. Everyone seems to struggle.

Put a Post-It note on your mirror that says: 'Someone has to succeed. There's no reason why it shouldn't be me.' Repeat before every audition.

Don't give up because of the dark days. Succeed in spite of them. The dark days make the bright days seem even brighter. So bright you can hardly stand it.

Because you've done the horrible jobs, it gives you an even grittier determination to succeed.

The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.

I feel as if I've been so inured to failure, because I fail more than I succeed. As with any kind of fiction, I throw out so many pages; I get rejected so many times.

What is needed by him who would succeed in the highest degree possible is careful planning. He is to accumulate reserved power, that he may be equal to all emergencies.

So many great movements didn't succeed the first time, but people kept trying and trying and trying.

Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.

In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.

There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.

The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.

Thug Life to me is dead.

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward

For every dark night, there's a brighter day.

It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinda scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say "damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.." you gonna be like "DAMN! a ROSE grew from the CONCRETE?

It don't stop 'til the casket drop.

As wars come and go, my soldier stays eternal

The seed must grow regardless Of the fact that it's planted in stone