Quotes About Resilience

We, Filipinos, are really great about keeping a positive attitude and seeing the silver lining in all things. We're survivors!

The thing you see in survivors is that they express feelings - I won't say some of the things they tell their doctors, when doctors tell them they're going to die in six months. Boy, do they let the doctor know how they feel about that statement.

You can't take our people from Africa and put us in a diaspora and spread us all over the world. And we survived slavery - and we can't pass a test? ... And you're gonna tell me we can't learn how to write? Have you lost your mind? We are survivors. That's all we do is survive.

We're all painfully aware of how suddenly violence can occur, how crippling it is, and how survivors have to find a way back from that.

I want survivors to know that healing is possible.

I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If everybody is dead around you, how you can keep surviving. I went to the bookstore and found psychiatry books about survivors from the Holocaust.

In 'Last to Die,' three children living in different cities are the only survivors when their families are slaughtered. Two years later, their foster families are murdered, and these three orphans are once again the only survivors.

Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.

If you really want to see the face of war, see the faces of survivors.

All of the characters I've had the chance to create are survivors. But we live in a world where surviving makes up most of what we do.

Black people are achievers; we're survivors.

There were times after the accident when I felt very lonely - burns survivors can feel terrible isolation. I wanted to create something that connects us all together, so that was the idea behind the Katie Piper Foundation.

I was very surprised to learn how many cancer survivors are out there and how they instantly rallied to my support.

Phil is a child of Holocaust survivors.

Sometimes your immune system gets a little heated, and you're more susceptible to getting some illnesses that way.

The poor lifestyle I had been leading made my body susceptible to diseases. Had it not been cancer, some other malady would have struck me.

When people are pushing me against the cage, in the past I was more susceptible to allowing it to happen because I had that jiu-jitsu mentality that I'm not going to grind back.

My cognitive skills are a little suspect at times. It comes and goes on certain days. I can be sitting here and you might say what's wrong with him, and I'll figure out what I was saying and start going again.

In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly.

If you look in the animal world, many, many organisms will enter into states of suspended animation.

I was always the person who would make the mistake. I was the one who would get suspended from school.

I was suspended for two years and I got really fat. That was a polite way of putting it.

Excellence endures and sustains. It goes beyond motivation into the realms of inspiration.

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.