Quotes About Resilience

You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.

If you put a frog in boiling water, it'll jump straight out. If you put it in cold water and gradually bring it to the boil, it'll sit right there until it dies. Scotland has been sitting in England's gradually boiling water for so long that many people are used to it.

Give me 30 minutes rest, little drink of water. Give me 30 minutes, and I can fight with anybody.

Being a fish out of water is tough, but that's how you evolve.

Cold water is merciless, but righteous.

I am like a drop of water on a rock. After drip, drip, dripping in the same place, I begin to leave a mark, and I leave my mark in many people's hearts.

My family made it through Hurricane Sandy. We have water, power, and a roof, but the survivor's guilt makes me want to hide. Sneak away from the brilliance of life. It shouts at me: 'Don't enjoy anything too much; people are suffering.' I feel childlike somehow.

I'm a man at the end of the day and I come from the streets, the trenches, I came from nothing, water and cornflakes.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash... If anything, that's all giving me power.

Failure holds the seeds for greatness - so long as you water those seeds with introspection, they can be the root of your success.

I like to work in the morning. I like to sometimes go to a place where I'm all alone where I'm not going to get a phone call early that hurts my feelings, because once my feelings are hurt, I'm dead in the water.

The lotus comes from the murkiest water but grows into the purest thing.

If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Like David Copperfield, I was born amidst poverty and grew up in poverty. I did not own shoes. I did not bathe in water from a tap. I did no know about forks and spoons.

South Sudanese people are rich like the soil; they just need a little water, and they will grow.

While I can't walk on water, I can certainly wobble on whisky.

Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.

I was bullied and picked on because I was so different to everyone else, and I definitely didn't believe or even know I was fabulous back then. But those hard times made me everything I am today. It's all water under the bridge now, but being bullied and going through adversity definitely made me stronger.

It is a proud tradition and fighting trait of our army and people to rise up like mountains and go through fire and water to unfailingly carry through the party's orders and instructions.

If you can survive in the desert, you survive anywhere. I know more than anything life in desert. You can tell by looking at the dirt how long ago it rained, how hard it rained, how much water came through. You can by looking at a plant, a tree, from an animal's look. I can read the desert like I read my hand.