Alice Duer Miller Quotes

If we want to cultivate hopefulness, we have to be willing to be flexible and demonstrate perseverance. Not every goal will look and feel the same. Tolerance for disappointment, determination, and a belief in self are the heart of hope.

You can bend but never break me. Cause it only serves to make me more determined to achieve my final goal.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.

Never break or fold, that's what it takes to be major.

We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.

Whoever you are, whatever your dream, you have to be strong in your head and strong in your heart. Be strong. There's no quitting in the person who wants it bad enough.

Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it.

There have been many things in my life that have tried to break me, going back to when I was two and three years old. It never stops - life will always push you to your limit. The only way I've managed to survive it all is believing in myself and knowing, somehow, beyond everything telling me otherwise, that I will succeed.

It’s not the struggles that define you; it’s how you overcome them.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

I have always said about myself I am a survivor because I am.

Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.

Greeks have always been very confident, very strong people. That is - that is our real, I guess, benefit, is that we are independent thinkers. We will always get up on our feet. We - we sometimes act the best when we are downtrodden.

My life I was raised to believe that you should never give in—that you should never give up.

I bend but do not break.

You don't win a fight by the size and the weight.

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

When the truly great people discover that they have been deceived by the signposts along the road of life, they just shift gears and keep going.

The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.

Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. They realized that they couldn't determine every circumstance in life but they could determine their choice of attitude towards every circumstance.

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit... and keep moving forward.

Attitude, humor and action (persistence) will whip fears and rejection. Fear of failure doesn't exist, if you believe it doesn't.

You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.

When obstacles have been put in front of me, I just get around them and move past them and laugh at them.