Quotes About Resilience

I was only one of hundreds of thousands of Yazidi victims.

That's one thing with stroke victims, you've got to have a goal and you cannot accept anything but that goal.

I have met other black and mixed-race people who were victims of racism, often far worse than anything I experienced, and who have taken a different path. They moved away from their home towns as soon as they could.

All conflicts are different, and yet the victims are always the same. They are people, just like you and me, but whose lives are deeply affected by violence and war.

We will always remember the victims of the horrific terror attacks of September 11th, 2001.

I'd rather be a victor than a victim.

I often find myself quoting from Victor Hugo after one of my theatrical ventures. 'Now that my play is a failure,' he once said, 'I find I love it all the more.' I first quoted that after 'Square Rounds' at the Olivier in 1992.

I don't want to be a victim. I want to be a victor.

What I really admire are people like my daughter, Victoria, who don't give up, who have daily medical challenges and medical conditions. They go on with their lives and make the best of it, not giving up even when it's not easy.

Never work against what you are. I never have, and I've never minded being typecast. Some of my agents have been like: try and change, Victoria. Cut your hair off, colour it, have a breast reduction.You have to this and that, to get a serious acting role. But I would rather use what I am to my advantage.

We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.

If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.

I don't really celebrate victories. Kobe Bryant just kept playing. Michael Jordan just kept playing.

I have not lost an awful lot in my life, but the defeats have taught me more than the victories.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.

You learn a lot from defeats. As well, you need to learn from victories.

My losses and my victories are in the past. I think of the future. After a fight is over, it's in the past. I always have to go back to the gym and train to improve in all areas, winning or losing. I think I can always do better next time.

Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.

As an African-American, we stand on the shoulders of people who fought despite not seeing victories in their lifetime or even in their children's lifetime or even in their grandchildren's lifetime. So fatalism isn't really an option.

America is full of success stories featuring victories by the underdog.

I learned early on that extraordinary challenges lead to extraordinary victories.

I think it's imperative of me to advance that theory that you can win your small victories against the dark.

Some of my biggest victories have come directly after some of my biggest failures.