Brittany Murphy Quotes

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

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

I think, in every person's life, you have ups and downs. You learn so much about yourself, sometimes even more, in the down times. Unfortunately, I had to go through it in public, which was not easy.

And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.

The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.

It doesn't matter how you travel it, it's the same road. It doesn't get any easier when you get bigger, it gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it.

There were times when I thought I got a bit more punishment than was coming to me, but I don't regret a minute of it now. Each of us must be tempered in some fire. Nobody had more to do with choosing the fire that tempered me than myself, and instead of finding fault with the fire I give thanks that I had the metal to take the temper and hold it.

That which does not destroy, strengthens.

Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.

There have been many things in my life that have tried to break me, going back to when I was two and three years old. It never stops - life will always push you to your limit. The only way I've managed to survive it all is believing in myself and knowing, somehow, beyond everything telling me otherwise, that I will succeed.

You deal. You survive. You grow up and you build a career. And you remember these big/little hardships. They make you human.

That which does not kill me can only make me stronger.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.