George Chapman Quotes

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming phrases; with tears and with tinsel, and with sugar-coated pills, and with platitudes slightly regilded. Yes, and I fight him also with little mirrors wherein gleam confusedly the corruptions of lust, and ruddy loyalty, and a bit of moonshine, and the pure diamond of the heart's desire, and the opal cloudings of human compromise: but, above all, I fight that ravening dotard with the strength of my own folly.

Do not despair of your life. You have force enough to overcome your obstacles.

The Devill is not alwaies at one doore.

Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.

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.

I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

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.

There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible events, but we cannot let them stop us. No matter what happens, I feel you must move forward with optimism and not get totally sideswiped.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

When the danger is great, one must not run away.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

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

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

I am determined to go through the horror of this world.

And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

I've been beat up pretty badly. Pretty badly. Yet at the end of the day, everyone says I'm doing a pretty good job.