Quotes About Resilience

I had a horrifying experience but what the world fails to understand is that the handicapped need no sympathy, they need to be encouraged in whatever they do.

There's little place for sympathy in football.

I wasn't a person to cry or point fingers or find any sympathy.

Nobody in football wants to receive sympathy.

I'm not a person who lives for sympathy.

How would you deal with it if you're 9 years old, people are telling you, 'You suck,' and they don't give sympathy? They don't feel bad for you because of who your dad is.

Obviously, after the accident, I felt let down. Questions arose: Why me? Why was I the one to suffer? People around me started giving me looks of sympathy which made me feel worse. But then, I pulled myself together and decided to win over the disability.

Everyone always told me that I had the symptoms of a P.O.W.

I called my mother up and I said, 'You know, I've been to the best doctors in the world and I've spent almost half a million dollars and they're telling me I have symptoms of a P.O.W. and all I did was grow up in your home.'

My own life was filled with so much love and joy that when depression struck, it was like a prison door slamming shut and I was being placed in an isolation cell. No one else could possibly be feeling what I was. I hated my depression and all of its symptoms.

Feeling alone while you're going through something actually exacerbates the symptoms of it.

Then after a few years I felt good in daily life but as soon as I started to push my body the symptoms came back and I had no strength at all. I got so tired. After an easy practice session all I wanted to do was sleep for days.

With COVID-19, I didn't have many symptoms luckily, so I think it's OK.

I played through flu-like symptoms before. It was frustrating.

I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney.

I don't really have Down's syndrome; I just have a slight case of it.

It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.

As I got older, I knew my syndrome wasn't going away. It was a hard pill to swallow. I wanted to look like everyone else and blend in, and I couldn't find a way to make that happen. I couldn't blame the doctors or my parents, so I blamed myself.

I was born with Kallmann syndrome. I have never complained about it, as I can't do anything to change it - and I wouldn't have acquired the voice that I have.

Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it.

I had to travel long distances to train on a synthetic track, which added to residual fatigue.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.

Syrian influence has not ended yet. It is going to be a very long path.