Quotes About Resilience

My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?

I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.

Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness.

To have success, you can't let failure stop you. To have great success, you can't let success stop you.

But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.

The worst is over without a doubt.

The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

Everything that comes our way is so we can grow and evolve, and if we look at it like that, then we have the great opportunity to step into who we always wanted to be.

I think it's really great when you stand up for something that you really believe, even if you get heat for it.

A guy I interviewed for Hard Times says, "What do I remember about the Great Depression? That I was hungry, that's all." Elemental things.

Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

I have never had a current state of mind. My mind changes a great deal. I am very affected by any sorrow or sad thing, and I am very affected by joy and beauty.

At the end of the day it's really easy to be a great leader when things are going well. The real test, whether or not you believe in being an emotionally intelligent leader, is when things go wrong.

2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.

Today, in Mexico, they speak 65 languages, counting the indigenous languages, 65. It is a people of great faith. They have also suffered religious persecution.

Great people are just ordinary people with an extraordinary amount of determination. They simply don't know how to quit. They just keep on 'keepin' on'.

One of the great things about African-Americans is that we've always had this attitude: We make do with what we got. It comes from our ancestors being slaves.

Pain is a great teacher, but most of us would rather learn some other way.

Adversity is prosperity to those who possess a great attitude.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling

The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport.

Silence is a source of great strength.