Quotes About Resilience

When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back.

Our girls have learned that sweat is sexy, brawn is beautiful and a little dirt never hurt anyone.

I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere.

I am certainly not drama-free in my life, and I used to be a lot more feisty, but I have arrived at a place where I really try to not sweat the small stuff anymore.

Of course, after like, three or four years of being called a loser and putting on bad suits and having the sweat and all that stuff put on me, it does start to get to you after a while.

I don't sweat bad games.

I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater.

I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.

The mind and the body are inextricably entwined, and rarely are their inseparability clearer than when we're under some kind of mental pressure. The moment we start trying to learn a new skill, make a decision or otherwise think on our feet, our nervous system reacts - with accelerated pulse rate, increased respiration, even sweating.

If someone were to actually come to one of our training sessions, there's lots of flipping and sweating and crying and blood going on all over the place. I mean, if that doesn't qualify it as a sport, then I don't know what does.

Even with the sun beaming down on me I'm not sweating in my mind. I'm not sweating in my heart or in my career.

When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.

I have both Swedish and Iranian cultures ingrained in me, so that's always there. Plus my love of the U.S. began early on. But growing up in Sweden as one of the few people of color around was not easy by any means.

Pretty hard to sweep me off my feet. It would have to take someone very special. You never know. I guess when you least expect it, it's going to come.

You can't just sweep me under the rug like I won't come back stronger and better.

I did every odd job you could possibly imagine: Holding a sign in the rain for 14 hours straight, sweeping up cigarette butts, pouring coffee, running around - anything I could to be on a film set. I wanted to be in the business. So I'd say, 'You need that job done? Fine,' and I became indispensable to people.

It's hard to close people out, regardless whether you're sweeping them or ending the series, period. It's hard.

Both San Francisco and New York are taking bold, sweeping action to reduce emissions, make our infrastructure more resilient and improve the health of our people. We are also leading the charge against those who continue to deny the existence of climate change.

You've to celebrate the good days because there are brutal days that make the good ones sweet.

I think if you just hang in there long enough and keep doing what you know is your sweet spot, I think the world eventually catches up to you.

I think that when you're kind of just shoved out there and you have to be tough and you're facing tough people and people are saying bad things about you, that all of a sudden, you have to become a little less sweet.

To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.

My mother was a very sweet soul and a beautiful person, but she had a lot of fear.

I'm such a strong-headed person and so stubborn, I don't need someone to be sweet to me.