Barbara Walters Quotes

Life can be so difficult at times but fighting through the pain is so worth it.

Don't let ups and downs leave you down and out.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.

Remember, the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes. (292)

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food--it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.

We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.

what matters most is how well you walk through the fire

Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it.

In general, the only way to overcome failure is to not let it destroy you. It's that old saying, "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." You just have to keep going.

I want the world to see, you can have a million stones thrown at you and you can still be positive.

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

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

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

The struggle I went through has value.

When times are difficult, I tell myself, 'I'm just passing through.'

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.