Quotes about Resilience

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

Activism is something that no one can fake. You get angry. You cry. But you never throw in your towel, because that anger is what is propelling you to further action.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.

There's only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above the difficult things we face: the power of God.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

Then I will speak upon the ashes.

I was just kind of sour with the sport. I didn't want anything to do with it. I went into a period of excessive partying and doing anything that wasn't figure skating, really. I went and built a house with my brother. I shut the whole world out and shut everything down.

Some people's developmental path has not equipped them to stand up and let go of something.

From a mental standpoint, you can't play this game unless you mentally are clocked in and that's, 'I'm willing to do everything to my body, my mind to put myself so that I can win.'

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them.