MJ Hegar Quotes

As all of us here have known, and as people all throughout the nation are witnessing, Gabby Giffords is a fighter.

I feel like my story could hopefully inspire others who've faced hard times.

I have immense respect for anyone with a physical deformity and the courage and confidence it takes just to go out in the world.

My life will not be defined by a single political campaign. Those will come and go. But what has driven me to run for elected office in the past still drives me today: the knowledge that heroes do walk among us with tremendous strength and power.

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed.

I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

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

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability.

Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.

Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person.

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.

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

Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.

My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.

I'm not interested in playing the victim. I like stories about survivors.

Life hits you hard. But it takes you three seconds to decide if you are a superhero or not. I am.

Since I was a little girl, I have witnessed the strength and courage that energized my mother, who left every sorrow and pain in the past, who would work unyieldingly to obtain her goals, who was the great warrior from whom I learned all the values that are today fundamental pillars of my every day.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!

I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Conquered, we conquer.