Paul McCartney Quotes

She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.

There’s always going to be ups and downs in life and it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t feel the pain. Pain is good. It makes you stronger in time. You will realize how great the ‘great’ really is. Life is about ups and downs. You just have to be able to ride the waves.

Hardships and handicaps can...stimulate our energy to survive them. You'll find if you study the lives of people who've accomplished things, it's often been done with the help of great willpower in overcoming this and that.

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.

You know, I've had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I've survived it's all because of you.

The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

No matter how painful your past has been, you have made it through.

Whenever we are inclined to feel burdened down with the blows of life, let us remember that others have passed the same way, have endured, and then have overcome.

You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.

Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.

A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.

If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption.' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't.

The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want us the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it.The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings.

Let's face it, life is a constant challenge. It's full of unexpected detours that no one but you can navigate.

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

I used to ask for an easy life, now I ask to be strong.

I fell so many times and got back up. I been through the toughest times with my family, but I’m still standing.

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

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.

The only way to get through the life I had was just to have a big head of steam and determination.