Quotes about Resilience

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.

Everybody has adversity in their lives and we all have to find ways of overcoming them. You've got to soldier on, make the best of it, look for the positive in everything.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.

People who pity themselves think, 'Why would I try to do anything? I'll just fail.'

I have plowed and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me. And aren't I a woman?

Doesn't matter what people say, doesn't matter what they are going to say about you. You gotta go out there and play your game.

I grew up knowing only war, so for me, it was the way things were. It wasn't pleasant by any means.