Quotes About Resilience

You have to go to war with a sword and a shield. You cannot go to war with bare hands.

The scariest thing I ever did was give birth in the kitchen by myself, with my three-year-old bashing me on the head with a sword, but it's not like you have a choice is it.

I had just come off my third consecutive failed television series. I had sworn off doing TV for a while. I was going to go to New York, sublet an apartment, and find my soul again. Before I got on the plane, my agent sent me the script for 'Psych.' I read it on the plane and realised it had a lot of potential.

The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane.

I got expelled from every school I went to in Sydney.

Dick Gregory used every syllable, every metaphor, every joke, every march, every incarceration, every hour of his life, to embarrass this country into providing a more perfect, perfect union.

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

I stand by 'Roots' as symbol of the fate of my people.

I believe that my father has become an ongoing symbol of what it means to keep on fighting for what is good in oneself, in others, and in our country.

That's just a symbol of how you should deal with a breakup. You can cry for a little bit, eat some ice cream, but I think, after that, it's like, get up, listen to some powerful music and do something that makes you happy, be productive.

Pearl Harbor remains a symbol of American resilience and resolve, and we pray for all those that have served and continue to serve in our military. May we never forget their bravery and sacrifice.

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

I told everyone who was ready to listen that I had material with pentagonal symmetry. People just laughed at me.

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

When I was a kid growing up, I liked the sympathetic characters played by Alan Arkin, Jack Lemmon, and James Stewart. They were my heroes. No matter what happened to them, they survived with their dignity intact.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.