Victoria Arlen Quotes

There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.

They've pushed me down a big ravine, but I'll get back up to the top.

It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on.

I've seen too much in life to give up.

Things will get better if you just hold out long enough.

I'm always looking for a story of survival.

When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.

… failure is a very condition of his life; one can never dream of eliminating it without immediately dreaming of death. This does not mean that one should consent to failure, but rather one must consent to struggle against it without respite.

I have this weird optimism that when things are not good - like, really, genuinely not good - that we shall persevere.

People overcoming the odds is actually a really important part of humanity, and I don't think we kind of get to celebrate that as much as we should.

Life is about how much you can take and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

When our forefathers put down roots in desolate places, the thing that allowed them to survive was that they had a faith to see them through the tough times.

Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.

I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

Working with Christopher, he convinced me he could fly, and he's convinced me he's going to walk again.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

Antwone's story was a story of hope and that's what appealed to me. I needed hope myself at that time. I think all actors give up at some time and think they're never going to make it.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!