Challenges & Adversity: Resilience Quotes

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"The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive"

John Zorn, Composer

John Zorn

"Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot"

John Philpot Curran, Public Servant

"We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis"

Johnnie Cochran, Lawyer

"I endured many weeks of it, but I had a big background in martial arts and fighting as a kid, so kind of all the problems got brushed away and I was ready"

Jason Statham, Actor

Jason Statham

"Adversity tests us from time to time, and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life"

Walter Annenberg, Businessman

"Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on"

Henry Rollins, Musician

"I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you"

Henry Rollins, Musician

"Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it"

Brian Herbert, Author

Brian Herbert

"When I'm boxing, if my career isn't going well, at least I feel mentally and physically strong"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

Liam Hemsworth

"I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses"

Carlos Santana, Musician

"The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark"

Pam Brown, Poet

Pam Brown

"I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach"

Pliny the Elder, Author

"I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me"

Courtney Love, Musician

"Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us"

Charles Kingsley, Clergyman

"If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

Anish Kapoor

"Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul"

Jim Valvano, Coach

Jim Valvano

"I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it"

Bernard Law Montgomery, Soldier

"Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday"

Wilma Rudolph, Athlete

"Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible"

Jimmy Connors, Athlete

Jimmy Connors

"Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

Sam Donaldson

"If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

Sam Donaldson

"Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth"

Yasser Arafat, Leader

"A thick skin is a gift from God"

Konrad Adenauer, Statesman

"The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can, we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale"

A. E. Housman, Poet

"He's a million rubber bands in his resilience"

Alan K. Simpson, Politician

"People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart but how much the head can bear"

Maria Mitchell, Scientist

"Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more!"

Ossie Davis, Actor

"The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit"

Wim Wenders, Director

"I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism"

Tom Allen, Politician

"Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day"

Edward Albert, Actor

"Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life"

Ben Affleck, Actor

Ben Affleck

"I know when I go outside, there'll be a van or two and they'll probably follow us four out of seven days a week, trying to get something. But I'm just going across town and I know they're just wasting their day, so it doesn't bother me anymore"

Brad Pitt, Actor

Brad Pitt

"A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis"

Ralph W. Sockman, Leader

"As in the rankest soil, the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty, the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed"

James Allen, Author

"Great necessities call out great virtues"

Abigail Adams, First Lady

Abigail Adams

"Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory"

Erich Segal, Novelist

Erich Segal

"People wait in line to see me, saying there's plenty of living to be done even if you have an HIV diagnosis. People say they are 10- or 15-year survivors and still moving forward"

Greg Louganis, Athlete

"Because nobody goes through life without a scar"

Carol Burnett, Actress

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