I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure
Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.
There's no more powerful lesson than knowing that your setbacks will one day help you succeed.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
I have learned it's not how you fall but how you get up that truly matters.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
I took revenge on hardship from my earlier life by forgetting it.
Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.
Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I really believe that.
You either fall, or you fight - and I chose to fight.
The reward of suffering is experience.
I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from.
You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.
I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger.
Being knee-deep in sadness or suffering and refusing to look down - to me, that represents something more powerful than someone who's never gone through difficulty.
