Quotes About Resilience

I once wanted to save the world. Now I just want to leave the room with some dignity.

I have heard and hidden the insults so long, I have been the conduit so long that I am disappearing!

Looking for a place to live at a time when landlords wouldn't rent to deaf people and setting up bank accounts when banks often required deaf people to get co-signees just for checking accounts wasn't going to be easy.

Every day they met with constant, irritating reminders of their shortcomings, from the petty annoyance of not being able to ask for a cup of coffee in a restaurant, to the sobering knowledge that they couldn't hear cars careening around corners, and that deaf people had been shot in the back by policemen when they hadn't heard a command to halt.

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

Five years ago we were working on a new album when my health began failing.

The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his jacket on.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Don't tell people about your problems...90% of them don't care, and the other 10% are glad you got them?

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

You have it in your power to turn a bad-beat around simply by realizing this simple truth: The more bad beats you encounter, the luckier you are. It's a sign that you are playing against opponents who continually take the worst of it, and if you can't beat someone who always takes the worst of it, you can't beat anyone.

It takes a busload of faith to get by.

Let's do what you fear most That from which you recoil But which still makes your eyes moist

If you have no more happiness to give me, / Well then! you still have your pain.

the goal is to get old without getting feeble.

The strongest women are healthier and live longer, with fewer disabilities.

My father would say things that make no sense, like, "If I were the last person on earth, some moron would turn left in front of me."

At some point you have to park your past and put yellow caution tape around it so you don't keep going back to it. Because there's nothing like lounging around in your past and all that self-pity.

When you're in the midst of a storm, it's hard to remember that God is always good and glorious, and that God's plans will always prevail, even when yours don't.