Quotes About Resilience

I got a lot of criticism for going back on 'Survivor' to play 'Survivor: All Stars.'

I have always said about myself I am a survivor because I am.

In the game of 'Survivor,' there is no time for regrets.

Sometimes being a survivor is the greatest compliment you can get in Hollywood.

I like 'Bootylicious,' 'Survivor' - my little granddaughter loves 'Survivor.'

I have a real survivor's instinct.

I'm a survivor. I'm a messenger.

I never thought of myself as a strong person until I wrote my first book, and people started to say, 'You're a survivor. You're such a strong person.' It never ever occurred to me.

I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.

I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes.

That's what defines 'Survivor': it's the ultimate test of who you are.

Stephen's the great survivor, isn't he? He just goes on and on.

I'm a survivor.

In some ways 'Survivor' might have saved my life.

We have named our kids Ryan and Krishank. Well, Ryan is also called as Sultan as he is a survivor and had a long struggle with life.

I like myself being a survivor.

I consider myself a survivor.

I'm not just a runner. I'm not just a fast guy. I'm a fighter. I'm a survivor in life.

The hope of ISIS was to break the Yazidi community. But for survivors especially, going back to their lives and getting married and making a life and working, it's basically making sure ISIS did not succeed.

Many of my favorite survivors in fiction show that it may not be the most muscled, macho or mighty people who pull through. A strong mind and body aren't always enough. You might also need a resilient heart.

I'm the son of two Holocaust survivors. As a child, I heard from one of my parents' best friends about living through Mengele's infamous selection process at Auschwitz. He haunted my nightmares.

People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.

For me, Jersey represents going through what you can go through and still surviving. That's the cool thing about people from the Tri-State area. We're fighters. We're survivors, and we're edgier than anyone else on Earth.

To be a black person is to come from a long bloodline of survivors and storytellers, with a resilience that people can't even comprehend.