Patricia Ireland Quotes

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Everybody has to deal with tough times. A gold medal doesn't make you immune to that. A skater is used to falling down and getting up again.

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

But at the end of the day, every star, every person that been iconic, has gone through a time in their lives where it was just bad. Everybody. It just made them better.

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

Struggle has been a part and parcel of my life.

I don't think one ever stops struggling.

You can be going through hardships sometimes, and you're struggling, and then you're wondering if you're ever gonna make it.

I struggled for so many years.

I want people who go through tough times, hard times, or didn't have everything right-things didn't fall in their lap or go in their favor-to know that they can still achieve their dream and go to the highest of the highs.

Once you go through something and come out of the storm, you've been tested.

Know that what you do in the time of your greatest trial can be your greatest triumph

There may be some tough times here in America. But this country has gone through tough times before, and we're going to do it again.

You may be in a tough time but that setback is simply a setup for a greater comeback.

Everything's been a struggle for me.

I've had my ups. I've had my downs, but I've been able to push through every obstacle that's been thrown my way.

These are the times that try men's souls.

I've gone through many, many things. I tell you something, that if it doesn't kill you, you get stronger.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

It's been a hard time to celebrate, to come out with a smile. But I'm an American. Naomi asked me to come out to support other Americans, and here I am.

Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale.

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.