17 posts found with this tag.
Oct 14, 2026
RJ Mitte, the Breaking Bad actor and disability-rights advocate who played Walter White Jr. while living with cerebral palsy, on the lesson his grandfather gave him — that ‘can’t’ is a decision — after his death at his home in Brownsville, Texas, on October 12, 2026, at the age of 34 sent his Wikipedia page to the top of the site’s most-read articles.
Oct 13, 2026
Fridtjof Nansen, the Norwegian explorer who made the first crossing of Greenland’s interior on skis, came closer to the North Pole than anyone then alive, and then won the 1922 Nobel Peace Prize for repatriating 427,886 prisoners of war and housing the displaced of post-war Europe — on the “Land of Beyond” he told the students of St Andrews every life is built to seek, from his Rectoral Address of 1926.
Oct 13, 2026
Karl Bushby, the English adventurer who set off from the southern tip of Chile in 1998 and is walking the final miles home to Hull 28 years later — the first person to travel an unbroken path around the world without motorised transport — on why three decades on the road left him trusting people more, not less: as individuals, he says, we are the best of the best, and the 24-hour news cycle is a poor mirror of the strangers who actually kept him going.
Oct 12, 2026
Mike Ditka, the Hall of Fame tight end who became the face of the Chicago Bears and coached the 1985 team to a 15–1 season and the Super Bowl XX title, on the line that outlived every huddle: “You’re never a loser until you quit trying.” He died on 9 October 2026 at 86, and his English Wikipedia page drew 627,603 views that day, up from roughly 1,665 a day the week before.
Oct 7, 2026
Steve Gleason, the former New Orleans Saints safety whose blocked punt in the first game back at the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina became a symbol of the city’s rebirth — and who has lived with ALS since 2011 — on the line from his twentieth-anniversary interview with The Times-Picayune: a body can shrink without the world having to.
Oct 3, 2026
8 resilience quotes from Gandhi, Dolly Parton, Messi, Ronaldo and Matthew McConaughey on persisting, pivoting and refusing to quit.
Sep 29, 2026
Ella Langley, the Alabama songwriter whose “Choosin’ Texas” just became the longest-running No. 1 in Billboard Hot 100 history, on why she keeps writing as if every song could change her life — because one quietly did.
Sep 21, 2026
8 quotes about resilience from Ernest Hemingway, Malala Yousafzai, JK Rowling, Denzel Washington, Michael Jordan, Serena Williams, Simone Biles and Amanda Gorman. A curated collection on falling forward, getting back up, and finding the light — every line verified against primary sources.
Sep 15, 2026
Arch Manning, the Texas Longhorns quarterback who on September 12, 2026 led No. 4 Texas back from a 20-point fourth-quarter deficit to beat No. 1 Ohio State 24-23 — the largest fourth-quarter comeback ever mounted against a top-ranked team — on the sentence he gave ESPN’s Laura Rutledge in the celebration, a year to the night after the same team broke him in his starting debut: he couldn’t lose to them again. He had nightmares about that game last year.
Sep 14, 2026
Alexander Zverev, the German world No. 2 who beat Ben Shelton 6-3, 7-6 (2), 5-7, 6-2 on September 13, 2026 to win the US Open — his second Grand Slam title of the year after the French Open in June, six years after he was two points from this same trophy and lost, and four years after an ankle injury nearly ended his career — on the sentence he gave his team at the trophy presentation: 2026 is the outcome of all the years that came before.
Sep 11, 2026
Ben Shelton, the 23-year-old American No. 1 who broke his 0-17 record against top-three players by dethroning defending champion Carlos Alcaraz in the latest-finishing match in US Open history — a 4-hour-28-minute, five-set quarterfinal war that ended at 3:33 a.m. on September 9, 2026 and sent his Wikipedia page past 337,000 views — on the line he gave the cameras moments after the biggest win of his career: that was a war, an epic match, so physical, and somehow the most enjoyable match he has ever played.
Sep 10, 2026
8 quotes about resilience from Carlos Alcaraz, Aryna Sabalenka, Jessica Pegula, Ben Shelton, Trinity Rodman, and Sandra Bullock. A curated collection on fighting until the last ball, digging deep, and turning failure into fuel.
Aug 10, 2026
Jim Lovell, the Apollo 13 commander who turned a catastrophic in-flight explosion into the most famous successful failure in history, explains why rescue never arrives by wishing for it — a miracle is something you build yourself, with the people who help you.
Aug 4, 2026
Anne Hathaway, the Oscar-winning star of 'The Devil Wears Prada 2' and Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey,' explains the discipline behind her two-decade career: she still assumes every film could be her last, and still auditions for every job like it is her first.
Aug 3, 2026
Kristin Harila, the Norwegian mountaineer who climbed all 14 eight-thousanders in a record 92 days, argues that the mountains will always draw people upward — so our job is to make climbing safer and fairer for everyone who answers the call.
Jul 20, 2026
8 quotes about resilience and perseverance from Homer, Laura Ingalls Wilder, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Ansel Adams, and Barack Obama. A curated collection of timeless wisdom on staying strong.
Jul 3, 2026
8 quotes about resilience and perseverance from Lionel Messi, Elon Musk, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Zlatan Ibrahimović. A curated collection of inspiring wisdom.