Quotes About Resilience

I've come to learn from my own experiences and those around me that it's not about survival of the fittest but about who can adapt the best to change.

I've built a career on the survival skill I honed early on: being a smart aleck who is good with a fast comeback.

We had nothing in hand and my father used to live on the street. The profession of acting happened to him when B.R. Chopra picked him up for a film, and my father acted just to earn money for survival.

When you don't have work for a year or two, you lower your standards a bit for survival.

I fight on emotions. When I don't fight on emotions, I don't fight well. I fight on emotion, because I'm in for survival.

To a certain degree, I think both self-narrativizing and selective memory are essential survival skills.

I think survival, with agency intact, is heroic for anyone or anything.

I didn't take the money route because I saw my parents struggle for survival.

When I think of my career and why I leaned in, it comes down to basic survival.

The key to survival is that when times are good you don't forget where you came from and you don't build crazy overhead just because you can. You live like you are going out of business every day and it makes you healthy.

I'm absolutely an amoeba. It's my survival value.

So I always respected the guys who were trying to do it on their own without taking a handout from a big organization. They were trying to create their own thing, the DIY style, which is sort of always been my style, kind of a makeshift survival mode and really just kind of forging your own path.

As a kid, my goal was survival.

There is no planning in a life of fighting to keep a roof over your head. It's pure survival.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything.

I am what survives of me.

I think any black woman is a queen. It's just, do you know it? Do you see it in yourself? Do you recognize it, do you abide by that, do you define yourself as that? Based on who we are and what we've been through and how we survive and where we stand, we are on kind of sacred ground. We stand on the backs of our ancestors.

I can survive in the jungle, so now I can do anything.

I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.

Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.

If you don't jump on the new, you don't survive.

You can be the greatest guy in the world but if you ain't got no heart, you ain't gonna survive.

Dark comedy helped me survive.