Dean Karnazes Quotes

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.

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

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.

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 am determined to go through the horror of this world.

I had to fight; I had to fall, and I had to get hurt to be where I am.

The only way to make it through life is to fight.

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

I'm a fighter. I'm a survivor, and I'll get through anything people can throw at me.

I didn't mind a bit of hardship.

I had to face imprisonment and house arrests, but it made me tougher.

Not everything happens as we want or desire. It doesn't matter. I'm a fighter, and I'm ready to fight every time.

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

Just because you get punched in the nose doesn't mean that you throw in the towel.

This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name

When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.

Life was brutal and it made victims of everyone.’ (Nykyrian)

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

You're gonna have to go through hell, worse than any nightmare you've ever dreamed. But when it's over, I know you'll be the one standing. You know what you have to do. DO IT!