Quotes About Resilience

It is good to have competition because that helps you survive in the long run.

When I really want to be comforted myself, what I look for is a story about how somebody could survive something really difficult.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

I don't think I could survive in cold places.

He must be independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn't he will never survive the scorching blasts of derision that will probably greet his first efforts.

What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows.

Quality survives.

Of course, we didn't survive to play all the way through the '90s, so I can say that - as I said, everybody in the band was aware of this, and we trying to figure out ways to make it different.

I only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with is: How do children survive?

My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.

It dawned on me that art was the way I could survive.

It's tough and it should be tough - it should never be easy to be given millions of pounds to make a drama. The coalition government is doing terrible things to the BBC, but drama will survive even if we end up putting on a play in a backroom of a pub.

You have what is right in front of you. You survive and you have your family. That's the whole world.

Fleetwood Mac were really accessible musically, but lyrically and emotionally, we weren't so easy. And it was our music that helped us survive. But all of us were in pieces personally.

I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It's how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy.

I always read about these stories of entrepreneurs - it's like they're in the desert with no water, and they're the ones that survive. But I've been really fortunate to have people on my team who are optimistic about the future and who know that if you work through hard times that there's usually something good at the end.

To step on a bomb, have your legs blown off and survive, is lucky. Everybody has a good-luck story. Mine was the fact that the senior medic was on patrol that day. Those who don't have a good-luck story are the ones who don't make it.

I don't think I'd ever really survive the outdoors.

Strong organizations with strong risk controls will survive and prosper.

I think I could survive a week without eating.

I dare to do things - that's how I survive.

All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice, folly, denial or misguided passion. They squander what matters most, and still they pick up the pieces.

I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google.

I had done one failed pilot. I remember, when it failed, I was like, 'Oh my God, how does someone survive this? That's it - that's the end of my career; it's over.'