Resilient Quotes

Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.

Hillary Clinton is tough, clever, and formidably well briefed, and has been politically ambitious all her adult life.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

He’s a tough little son of a biscuit eater. (Bubba)

In football, I'm not so old. At 52, maybe I have 20 years in front of me to coach. But I feel myself as... you might say an 'old fox.' Nothing scares me; nothing worries me too much. It looks like nothing new can happen for me.

My wife, Lauren, is a remarkably good sport and one of the most adaptable personalities I've ever met.

I'm not a fadeaway type of person; I don't have that type of personality.

I want people to look back at my career and say, 'That guy never backed down from anyone.'

I don't think I have the stomach Veronica has. I think I have the determination and the stubbornness and a little bit of the go-get-em. But I think I'm about 20 percent more girl than Veronica is. There's a lot of Veronica that hits home with me, the sort of feisty area. But I think that I have a little bit more girl. I'd scream my head off if I saw a body in the freezer.

Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She's ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.

Nothing really annoys me, I'm not that kind of person, I'm quite laid back about most things.

I've never backed down from a challenge.

Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity.

I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.

I don't get described as necessarily being aggressive. I don't know if 'laid-back' is the word. I think, if anything, what I would want people to say about me is, 'I think he had guts.'

I'm a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.

I'm the type of person where I'll take on anything because I like to work so much.

Mrs Thatcher was not lightly bullied.

I may be middle class, but I'm hard. 'Al dente', you could say.

I was known as a dogged, unflappable live reporter, the kind who runs barefoot to the camera, high heels in one hand, notebook in the other.

Klay Thompson stands out. He's just a tough kid.

When you meet me and hang out with me, I might come across as a very upbeat, driven person. I don't come across as someone who is wounded.

I want to be known as a solid all-around receiver that's fast, not a fast guy that plays receiver.

Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit.