Fiona Dourif Quotes

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

There is no success without hardship.

I think life is very, very, very hard, and I've never had anything come super easy to me, no matter what people may think.

Even the accomplished suffers setbacks sometimes. The more bitter the lessons, the greater the successes will be.

Struggles are what made everything worth while.

The triumph can't be had without the struggle.

It's okay to lose. Losing teaches you something. Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that's what makes life interesting.

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

I like struggle.

Life is a series of punches. It presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the people that are able to take those punches and able to move forward are the ones that really do have a lot of success and have a lot of joy in their life and have a lot of stories to tell, too.

No cross no crown.

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

The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood.

I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.

If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

You either lose your way or you break through the hardships and play well. There is a massive difference.

Nothing in my life was ever easy.

I've had many setbacks.

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

Scars are the price you pay for success.

My story is one of ups and downs. It's made up of tastes of success and a lot more rejection.

You have to go through some adversity to be able to be successful.