Quotes about Resilience

You can't make everyone happy. You just do what you can, and that's it... you're always going to catch criticism no matter what you do.

If people want to criticize me, that's their issue.

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

I learned to work on a computer years before I was placed under house arrest. Fortunately I had two laptops when I was under house arrest - one an Apple and one a different operating system. I was very proud of that because I know how to use both systems.

From a personal point of view, you want to be playing in every game, but when you have to cope with the heat, the artificial surfaces, injuries, and tactics based around the coach's selection, you can't do it all.

I work with a host of amazing women who act as role models, who give their spare time freely to encourage these girls to give things a go, to reach out and take a chance and to explain that should they fail, well that's just a part of life.

You got to take a deep breath and give up. The system is rigged against you.

You're not always happy with things that go on in life on a daily basis. There's nothing I can do. You've got to deal with it and still take care of myself.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

Neighbors broke the news that my parents had been taken away by immigration officers, and just like that, my stable family life was over.

Every day, you got to do adjustments. Every pitch. You got to do what it takes.

On the day when I was shot, and on the next day, people raised the banners of 'I am Malala'. They did not say 'I am Taliban.'