Quotes About Resilience

Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.

We all survive more than we think we can.

I heard endless conversations between my parents when I was going to sleep about how we would survive, how we would continue. All of them were about trying to make me better.

I didn't die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn't survive certain things... people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst... for many reasons, I shouldn't be here.

I sometimes think to myself, 'Who is this woman? It can't possibly be me.' And that's really how you survive.

Any organisation has to go through at least one depression to see how it survives, and a normal economic cycle takes seven years.

I have learned that music helps a lot of people survive, and they want songs that can give them something - I guess you could call it hope.

My experience as a refugee had made me strong; I could survive anything, even the world of fashion.

When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.

Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.

No plan survives contact with the enemy.

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever.

It's the way of life in Saginaw. If you're not tough, you don't survive.

I cannot conceive of how more than 1% of us could possibly survive a cyberwar.

I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do then survive.

We did everything we could to save my legs, and it just came to a point where if we didn't amputate my legs, I wouldn't survive. In that situation, you kind of go into survival mode, and you find strength.

I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.

I am a free spirit that must survive in a free world.

You survive cancer but you have still got the emotional baggage.

I think part of being human is learning to roll with the punches, to deal with any kind of personal or professional disaster that might crop up. You have to learn to deal with that stuff or not survive.

Who lives if India doesn't survive?

Gay men have to go through something to own their - who they are. They get beat up. They get ostracized. Whatever they go through, if they survive it, they come out very confident people.