C. S. Lewis Quotes

I've had my ups. I've had my downs, but I've been able to push through every obstacle that's been thrown my way.

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

There's always going to be bumps in the road. There's always going to be this and that, adversity. You just overcome it. It's what I've done all my life.

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

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.

Things will get better if you just hold out long enough.

It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems.

Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.

I'm a damaged person, but I have hope and a will to not give up.

There is no success without hardship.

Have a little faith, kick a little dirt.

Struggle has been a part and parcel of my life.

I'm originally from Victorville, California, I grew up there. You know, it was a journey, because in Victorville, you know, it's tough out there. It's not like, the easiest place to grow up, so I had just faith in God that if I keep working hard, I could make a way for myself, so my faith in God is something I need, it's essential.

I have fought all my life, that is easy for me.

That's been the story of my life - obstacles: trying to figure a way over them, around them, under them; sometimes you have to go straight through them.

The underdog is a person that's at risk, a person that has a lot of big trials you have to overcome. I mean, that was my life.

Nothing in my life has really ever been easy. I've always been someone who did it uphill.

I'm going to fight until my body says otherwise.

There's always adversity to overcome.

I've had to fight through a lot of adversity, but I just kept fighting.

Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None, therefore, who is engaged in it, will suffer himself, I trust, to sink under difficulties, or be discouraged by hardships. If he cannot do as he wishes, he must do what he can.

I've struggled in my life. I've had hard times, but I kept pressing on.

When it's hard and you are doubtful, give more.

But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.