Quotes About Resilience

Sometimes, you gotta believe something crazy. Because all the other things you could believe hurt too much.

I really must stop worrying and frightening myself like this, and take things as they come, he told himself very firmly.

Leave me be! Leave me be!" she shouted; and with her stick, she beat at her dreams. She had passed the children without noticing them. And then Pidge was not afraid of her any longer. He realized that her anger was directed only against herself and her own thoughts.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but simply moving on with dignity despite that fear.

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

Maybe the bottom of my own night is a darkness I cannot descend into without "the light that is within me" becoming dark.

I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think that anything could touch me. I thought, I can beat anything.

I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.

There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.

God doesn't take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.

Someday, I suppose I'll give up, and sit in the rocking chair. But I'll probably be rocking fast, because I don't know what I'll do without a job.

I didn't leave her there for long. When a player makes a mistake, you always want to put them back in quickly—you don't just berate them and sit them down with no chance for redemption.

Quit? Quit? We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities, because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment. When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in

Yes. It is. —June 23, 2012, at night driving from Henrietta back to Knoxville with the tape recorder off, thirteen months after diagnosis

We installed something Dean called "the persistence drill," which tested their stamina: they had to make consecutive full-court layups for two straight minutes—and if they missed, start over. On the defensive end, they had to make seven straight defensive stops before they could get off the floor.

We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.

We can't win at home and we can't win on the road. My problem as general manager is I can't think of another place to play.

Instead of getting mad or getting even, get creative.

To live is to fight.

It's not that you should never love someone so much it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness- It's your best strength-

Neither cruelty, nor violence, nor torture will make me beg for mercy, because I prefer to die with my head raised high, with unshakeable faith... In my country's predestination rather than live in submission forsaking my sacred principles.

Patricia B. McConnell