Philip Emeagwali Quotes

If I can make it through homelessness, I can make it through anything.

I've been through a lot; that I have.

I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

I really believe in the old expression that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's through adversity that you find the strength you never knew you had.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.

I am determined to go through the horror of this world.

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

I don't ever remember overcoming adversities.

When 'stuff' hits the fan, it has a way of making you stronger.

I've been through worst, seen worst.

Sometimes, you find peace through misery.

The only thing I know how to do is survive.

I've seen the human condition under the most trying of circumstances.

I have been through so much.

I've been through so much stuff that I hope even my enemies wouldn't have to go through.

War made my everyday problems seem much smaller, and when it is hard sometimes, I just remember that it could be much worse.

My experience as a refugee had made me strong; I could survive anything, even the world of fashion.

People can grow from adversity as much as they do from prosperity.

Most people overcome something terrible at some point in their lives.

Not everybody's journey is easy, and it wouldn't be worthwhile if you can't see what you gained without realizing what kind of battles you've been through, what kind of scars you have.