Triumph Over Challenges Quotes

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

You haven't been through one thing that God cannot heal you from.

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

Overcoming hardships and working around and through their obstacles to achieve an education is what I call a true success.

I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.

Real champions fight through adversity.

No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.

People do the most remarkable things in the most difficult of circumstances.

People inspire me. Every day, I meet amazing individuals in the field. When I see a mother who has walked for three weeks to come to a MSF clinic, with two kids on her back and her belongings on her head, facing intimidation and physical abuse on her way, I am inspired by her resilience - her desire for life.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

A difficulty for every solution.

There will be times when you will be frightened and discouraged. You may feel that you are defeated. The odds of obtaining victory may appear overwhelming. At times you may feel like David trying to fight Goliath. But remember-David did win!

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

People tell me their own stories about how they have come through great difficulty.

You want to get better even after people smash you down. You want to be better than you were before.

I feel like I am an example. And I hope my life is a testimony to show people no matter what you go through, how many hurdles are placed in front of you, how many bumps and bruises you get, to pick yourself up and be resilient and keep on trucking.

The story of survival is a nice metaphor for our experience making this movie, finding your inner strength and powering through and getting to the endpoint alive.

It doesn't matter whatever has happened in my life; it doesn't matter how many ditches I've had to go through in my life. I keep going forward.

Remember,too,that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start,and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive". The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at some moment of crisis,through which they are introduced to their "other selves".

That is always what I've had to do in life: to show I am capable of surviving.

You win some, you lose some. You get hit you don't get hit, but it's not about how hard you get hit. I think it's about how hard you get hit, then still get up and deliver an even harder punch. I think that's what it is all about.

Victory is not the absence of problems, it is the presence of power.

Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.

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