Quotes About Resilience

The first hundred years are the hardest.

At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.

At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore.

The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything but they make the most of everything.

Old age is not for sissies.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty.

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

Its better to wear out than to rust out.

Now you'll get to see how I can really run a building, darlin. Not even a cracked knee to hold me back, yeah? What a nice birthday present.

I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.

Never quit. Never give up.

Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

Test Cricket is not a light-hearted business, especially that between England and Australia.

Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps.

Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.