Karen Handel Quotes

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

When the going gets tough, let the tough get going.

To the stars through thorns.

I have been the struggler of the century. Fortunately, everyone loves the underdog.

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

Life is like a wrestling match: a lot of times, things are looking good, and then something happens, and you're fighting from underneath.

It is hardship that makes clear who the "fighters" are.

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.

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

I've always believed in survival.

Everybody has to deal with tough times. A gold medal doesn't make you immune to that. A skater is used to falling down and getting up again.

We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.

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.

I like struggle.

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

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.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

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

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

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.

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

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

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.

I thrive on adversity.