Norm Crosby Quotes

To the stars through thorns.

I've been through the highs and lows. I know what it's like to taste defeat and it's not nice.

I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.

There is no success without hardship.

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

Everybody in life has something that they get knocked down on. The object lesson here is not that you get knocked down - it is that you get up.

People striving, being knocked down and coming back... this is what builds character in a man.

I'm a survivor.

Everyone has faced something; some struggles are more heroic than others.

I want to share the things I've done, the things I've survived, the things I've struggled through.

Most people overcome something terrible at some point in their lives.

It's true - ever since I was born, I've been through some tough situations. But that's what has given me the strength and the drive to succeed.

You have setbacks in your life, and adversity. You can be discouraged about it or have courage to get through it and be better.

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

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.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

I don't care who you are, life has challenges.

You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

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