Paula Radcliffe Quotes

I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person.

If you suffer a setback but recover from it you become all the stronger as person and a fighter.

In difficult times, we're not supposed to quit believing; we're not supposed to quit growing.

Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.

If you fall, get back up. That's what life is about.

When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

No matter what happens to us in life, we must get back on our feet and continue on the path.

I didn't get in to 'Strictly' the first time, but my determination and enthusiasm shone through and got me a job on the show the following year. Don't give up and turn the no's and setbacks into a positive!

I want to inspire people and show people no matter what happens, no matter how much you get knocked down, you can pick yourself up. Just keep pushing forward, keep being positive.

When things don't go your way, the day after you wake up and try to get better and be as good as you can be the next day.

Everything don't work out for the best. You have to use a lot of those things as lessons in order to build yourself up.

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.

I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.

I've always believed in survival.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible events, but we cannot let them stop us. No matter what happens, I feel you must move forward with optimism and not get totally sideswiped.

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

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.