Philip Roth Quotes

For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.

Don't give up. You're going to get kicked in the teeth. A lot. Learn to take a hit, then pick yourself up off the floor. Resilience is the true key to success.

There is only one sin and it is: weakness. When I was a boy, I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good man I had any respect for was Satan. The only saint is that person who never weakens, faces everything, and determines die game.

Growing up in a place that has winter, you learn to avoid self-pity. Winter is not a personal experience, everybody else is just as cold as you, so you shouldn't complain about it too much. You learn this as a kid, coming home crying from the cold, and Mother looks down and says, 'It's only a little frostbite. You're okay.' And thus you learn to be okay. What's done is done. Get over it. Drink your coffee. It's not the best you'll ever get but it's good enough.

People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.

Football is not a game for the weak of heart, because every day you've got a hundred reasons to take all those pads off and say, 'F-k it.'

In the face of pain there are no heroes.

When it's all said and done, you may go through the fire, through the flood, through the famine, but you'll come out standing strong.

Johnny almost grinned as he nodded. "Tuff enough," he managed, and by the way his eyes were glowing, I figured Southern gentlemen had nothing on Johnny Cade.

Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you—and it will find you

Real courage embraces the twin realities of current difficulty and ultimate triumph.

With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.

You have a dream and you have obstacles in front of you as we all do. None of us ever get through this life without heartache, without turmoil, and if you believe and you have faith and you can get knocked down and get back up again and you believe in perseverance as a great human quality, you find your way.

I do not walk away in the face of adversity and never have.

The trouble, dollIs not moving mountains, butDigging the ground that you're on

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Nothing's ever come easy to me and nothing ever will and that's okay. I'm used to that. I go with the challenges. I roll with the punches.

The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game.

But the thing about proving things? Your jaggedness just goads you on – it makes you sharper and harder. It gives you swagger.

Strength is nothing more than enduring life - to be able to survive the heartaches and agonies we go through with our heads held high. Sometimes just walking through adversity to get to the other side is a sign of strength.

We believe that it takes a strong back and a soft front to face the world.

I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes.

Quick beleevers neede broad shoulders.