Resilience Quotes

"If you’re hurt, lick your wound and get up again. If you’ve given it your absolute best, it’s time to move forward." "My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost." "The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face." "Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes." "Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame." "A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated — this is the greatest blessing." "You don’t have to be in a boxing ring to be a great fighter. As long as you are true to yourself, you will succeed in your fight for that in which you believe." "I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK." "No one knows what to say in the loser’s locker room." "I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me." "Too many easy victories can ruin a fighter just as much as a long line of defeats." "The critics only made me work harder." "Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even." "I may have been the best fighter, but I was also the poorest. I had never been able to afford a first-class mouthpiece to protect my teeth. I had to wait until other fighters finished so I could borrow their headgear, or their trunk or bandages." "I’ve never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself."