Markus Zusak Quotes

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I really believe that.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

The struggle I went through has value.

'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger?' In my case, I suppose it's not just a cliche.

Disabilities and misfortune can make you stronger.

I faced a certain amount of violence. It taught me that I had to learn to protect myself - and it made me stronger. It could have made me step backwards with my self-discovery. Instead, it pushed me further.

If they hadn’t tried to break me down, I wouldn’t know that I’m unbreakable.

What batters you becomes your strength.

Scars are reminders of the obstacles we've overcome. Wear them proudly.

Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

A lot of people deal with things that are bad. Once you've been through something, you grow from it and you take a lot in. You can always turn it into something positive.

I was bullied and picked on because I was so different to everyone else, and I definitely didn't believe or even know I was fabulous back then. But those hard times made me everything I am today. It's all water under the bridge now, but being bullied and going through adversity definitely made me stronger.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

I've gone through many, many things. I tell you something, that if it doesn't kill you, you get stronger.

Most people would identify with the fact that we tend to be defined by the struggles we came through than by the successes. And certainly for me that's true.

In my life I had no other choice than to become a strong person.

'Growing Stronger' emerged from a need to relate my life experiences as well as my constant struggle to prevail each day, and as a reminder to myself of the importance of never giving up.

I'm still me even after all that's happened.

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

I was very down as a teenager, very upset because I had gotten hurt in a car accident. But my dad was a source of strength. He used to say, 'It's the character with strength that God gives the most challenges to.' I've thought about that so many times in my life when things didn't go right.

The only advice you can give is, 'Don't let the bad stuff keep you down.'

I embraced every struggle because it made me the fighter I was.

So once you hit like that place, where everything is stripped from you, everything is taken from you, you really discover who you really are. I discovered that I'm a real hero, that I can deal with that situation, that I can rise up to the challenge.