Ann Bancroft Quotes

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.

You can't separate me from my upbringing as a child overcoming learning disabilities and having to make my way through that.

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

... combines a limited outlook with strong qualities of resistance.

I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years.

Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my side. But when I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork - all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur.

All of us suffer difficulties in our lives. And if you say to yourself 'find a way,' you'll make it through.

When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

When I was young, a lot of things were closed off to me. I was always told, 'Don't do this, you can't do that' - instead of stopping me, it made me think, 'I can do that, I must do that.'

I'm inspired by challenges. My life was always like this.

You are the master of your own ship, pal. There are lots of people who fall into troubled waters and don't have the guts or the knowledge or the ability to make it to shore. They have nobody to blame but themselves.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

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.

I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

I've always been pretty tough in that way, where if you tell me I can't do something, I will prove you wrong.

My job, my whole life, I've always had that kind of doubter, people have always doubted me. And I don't know how I would succeed without it. So I welcome it, and it gives me a challenge, and I will see if I can live up to my challenge.

I am a fighter. I'm not just there to go along and get along.

Telling me that I can't do something is probably the worst thing that anyone can say, because I'll definitely do it. I'm very determined.

I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.

In spite of my lack of education, I didn't lack direction.

My dad didn't believe that I was going to make it through school, and that was the only thing I was determined to do, because he said that I wasn't going to do it.

I was in special ed, but I felt like I was a caged bird. I felt like I could do better. I made sure I mastered my special ed lessons. I made sure I listened to my teacher. I made sure I did my homework, but I had to do a little extra.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I'm a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.