Quotes About Resilience

The greatest thing my dad taught me came from when I called him from a phone booth and said, 'Hungry. No bus token. Please. Out of options.' He said, 'Pfft, get a job.

My dad always said, If someone hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Plus that also works wonderfully as a metaphor.

My dad has had a rare form of leukemia since I was in about 7th grade.

Back in high school I told my dad, "I'm going to have a computer someday." And he said that it cost as much as a house-the downpayment on a house. And I said, "Well, I'll live in an apartment."

Failing and laughing at your own shortcomings are the hallmarks of a sane parent.

My dad's all I've ever had. When I was 3 and 4, my mom used to take me to bars. I understand why now - babysitters cost beer, beer and-a-half an hour.

I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for one egg. But mostly no one came by at all. It was very demoralising.

My dad has had a rare form of leukemia since I was in about 7th grade. But they've come up with some amazing drugs since then and he's doing really well today.

My dad died when I was 14. It was very sudden, traumatic, and confusing. I always felt I could have gone down a bad road at that point, but I made a choice to be a winner.

When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts.

My mom is my heart. She was a rock for me even though she was not around as much as dad.

I went from living in my dad's basement to moving to New York. So I never had that middle ground of easing into adulthood.

I have a real no-nonsense dad who taught me how to be resilient at a very young age.

You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.

Dad, Thanks for being my biggest fan, even when I strike-out.

And as Dad said to me, 'You can't always stop people from being mean. But you can stop them from making you mean.

My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever.

Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them.

Normality is what weak people call living, I call it death

A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.

Blessed are those who, in the face of death, think only about the front sight.

TRUE Courage is when you are scared to death and STILL saddle up and ride in!

I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his honour and that of his country, Victory or death.