Susan L. Taylor Quotes

In my life I had no other choice than to become a strong person.

There are so many things that can happen to us in life where you think, 'I can't cope. I can't deal with it,' but you probably can.

That's been the story of my life - obstacles: trying to figure a way over them, around them, under them; sometimes you have to go straight through them.

I've dealt with a lot in my life.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.

The first few years in L.A. were really tough and scary, but I had to figure things out for myself.

It makes me feel resilient when you tackle different things.

I don't care who you are, life has challenges.

I would not call it a difficult life, really. I just had a lot of challenges at a very young age.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood.

I'm pretty easily overwhelmed and pretty tough as well. I think I'm tougher than I used to be. There's been a lot of hardship along the way. But that's what life is. And it's how you deal with those things, and how you let them shape you that makes you a better person and defines what sort of person you're going to be.

I take life very seriously. I can laugh at it, because what else can you do? But it's a hard daily battle.

Reality show? You can't find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the ups and downs, the struggle when you get knocked down to get back up. Use it symbolically and interchangeably for life.

I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.

Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.

I think it's very important to teach your children to struggle on some level.

You don't get anywhere unless you've had a little bit of a complicated life.

Everyone's got a boulder in their life of one sort or another that they need to overcome. For most people, it's not a literal one, but there are certainly metaphorical ones.

The only way to make it through life is to fight.

Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.

You just don't know in life. Life knocks you about and pushes you over boundaries. But be ready. Do your homework; that's all I can say.