Dana Reeve Quotes

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.

My advice to young entrepreneurs is not to accept defeat in the face of odds, and challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction.

Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'

When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.

Whatever you're going through in your life, don't ever give up.

It's still in my heart. I can do it.

If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined.

You just have to keep believing in yourself.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.

Do and hope

I've never let myself give up, because I believe in myself. I want to get stronger than I have ever been, and I will continue to tell myself that I can do it, no matter what the odds.

Wipe the tears away, stand up, be a man, run your business, find a way.

I had a lot of negative comments, but it made me stronger and made me want to do more in my game. It made me more determined if anything.

I want people to use my story to stand up, be strong-willed and persevere.

True hopefulness and optimism is what leads one to dare. It is also what lifts one back up to dare again after a failed attempt.

People have been calling me names and setting me back my whole life. And with every fight it's just given me more fuel to my fire and in doing so I've become a success.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

It made me a stronger person, and more determined. I don't know if I'd still be as strong if I didn't have all that hate. I needed hate to make me more determined.

When my doctors said I would never walk, I didn't believe them. I knew I wasn't meant to spend my life in a chair.

I'm not easily scared; from the age of 8, I learned what it means to have everything you know taken away and what it means to persevere. I approach politics the same way.

I turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.