Quotes About Resilience

To force a culture creates something that is inherently not sustainable. It does not evolve forward.

And in rural communities we've worked alongside, Haitians are doing far more than merely recovering from the earthquake. Many are creating long-term sustainable change.

I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.

People need hope and inspiration desperately. But hope and inspiration are only sustained by work.

Throughout my life, my prayers have actively sustained me - held me up, carried me through.

It sustained me... I can't tell you how much their support meant to me when I was leaving and coming back and even while I was gone, there was a part of me that knew people were pulling for me.

I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.

I've sustained a meniscus injury, shortly after that I sustained an ACL injury so really just going through that and going through some personal issues, personal problems within myself.

With the amount of flops that I have seen in my career, one would think that my career would have been over long back. But it has sustained. And I truly believe it did because I lived life on my own terms.

A lot of groups go out, and they make big bucks in a couple of years and they're gone. I would like a band that's sustaining.

For me, the most interesting thing is longevity and sustaining a career, because that's what's truly difficult.

I got kicked out of the league because I had a hard time sustaining at the quarterback position.

I'm not sure if I can swagger anymore, but I can limp with the best of them.

Run the Jewels, our role is this: We can provide some music and some swagger in the face of doom and in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.

You recognize the truth because sometimes it's hard to swallow, but if you hold it in your mouth, refusing to eat it, you are going to choke.

There's not just playing on a Saturday and you receiving your money at the end of the month. There's so, so much more to football than what people see. My agent told me when I was 15, 16, 'you can have all the ability in the world but if you're not mentally strong enough football will swallow you up.'

It's a tough pill to swallow, when you come so close to winning and you fall short.

This is a hard enough sport when you're giving 100 percent. If you're giving anything less than that, it'll swallow you up.

Normally, a loss, it's hard to swallow, but you get over it sooner or later.

Of course, I have my ways of getting into trouble. We all have times when we think, Oh my God, can the world please swallow me up and take me away from this?

If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it.

One has to swallow a bitter pill to get cured.

You're going to have to swallow Vitor Belfort. I'm going to reinvent myself and come back different every time.

Losses are always hard to swallow, and every sportsperson has the same feeling.