Robin Roberts Quotes

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

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.

So once you hit like that place, where everything is stripped from you, everything is taken from you, you really discover who you really are. I discovered that I'm a real hero, that I can deal with that situation, that I can rise up to the challenge.

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

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

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome.

I really believe in the old expression that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's through adversity that you find the strength you never knew you had.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

The human spirit and what it can go through... that's pretty inspiring.

No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.

You find strength in your moments of weakness.

It is definitely hard when you're going against the tide. Of course, it is tough. But does that mean you can't do it? No, it depends on your strength, stamina and ability to take so much power against you.

When my back's to the wall, I want to fight.

I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

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

Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

In my life I had no other choice than to become a strong person.