Joseph Conrad Quotes

I'm a survivor.

You know you're going to get burned from time to time. It's just part of the game. So when it happens you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and forget about it because they're about to snap the ball again.

"You going back," she said. "You ain't going to run away from this, Grant."

We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

You got to be willing to walk in a storm. That's what I tell people all the time.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Don't struggle about the struggle. In other words, life's full of ups and downs. So if you're struggling, don't worry, everyone else has or will at some point.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

I am determined to go through the horror of this world.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.

The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.

Have a little faith, kick a little dirt.

They've pushed me down a big ravine, but I'll get back up to the top.

… failure is a very condition of his life; one can never dream of eliminating it without immediately dreaming of death. This does not mean that one should consent to failure, but rather one must consent to struggle against it without respite.

Bad things happen. Cope!

My whole life, I have had to fight.

I've been through worst, seen worst.

Life kicks you hard but you have to be a man to come back.

As long as you don't fold up and curl up into a ball, you'll be all right.