Quotes About Resilience

When you go out to play in different conditions against different bowlers, it is always challenging.

In overcast conditions where you bat first, we have to try and not lose early wickets.

Being professional cricketers, we have to adjust to different playing conditions and perform well in all circumstances.

At school I used to hang out with the girls - they looked after me but the boys would call me gay and I'd get into fights. They'd push me and I'd push them back. I don't condone violence, but you have to stick up for yourself because no one else will.

Bullies will attack your confidence, but you cannot let them kill your ambition.

Confidence is something you have to embrace.

When you're confident about something, people can't bully you about it.

We need to be confident. We need not to blink.

Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.

I am sort of drawn toward places in the world where there is struggle and conflict.

When an actor doesn't face a conflict, he loses confidence in himself. I always want to have a struggle because I believe it will help me accomplish more.

I was six years old when the conflict started in Rwanda.

As an actor, I'm always interested in my characters getting into trouble, because conflict is, you know, the great determiner of someone's mettle.

A lot of women need to know that they don't have to conform, they don't have to take no for an answer.

It's not always enjoyable to go back and look at things in your life. Things that you're not proud of, you definitely don't want to confront; dark times that you've already gotten over.

It's okay to cry, it's okay to be confused, or to be down and angry.

I think 'Black Dog' came out at a time where a lot of people were feeling quite low and confused in quite a chaotic space.

Through the loss of my wife and many confusing times, Jesus was always there by my side.

I cannot forget the place that I come from. The Congo is much in need.

If someone had told me in 1963 that one day I would be in Congress, I would have said, 'You're crazy. You don't know what you're talking about.'

If you are aggressive about something, you don't get it, but if you love, you can conquer everything.

I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.

The way you conquer fear is to feel it all the way, and then you'll find out that there's nothing there - it's just emotion.

At any given moment, if I see my bully, the guy who's trying to conquer me, we're going to find out. And if we could fight every time we came across each other, we would.