Joyce Meyer 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.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

The only thing I know how to do is survive.

Can't escape pain, kiddo. Battle through it and you get stronger.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.

My father left me with a saying that I've carried my entire life and tried to pass on to our kids: 'Tough times don't last, tough people do,'

Adversity can strengthen us if it does not go on too long.

I've always believed in survival.

I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.

Tough times don't last, but tough people do. And I've been through some tough times, and I know a lot of people can recall tough times, and maybe are going through some tough times right now, but they don't last.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

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.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

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.

Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.

Life becomes inspiring, not in spite of the problems and the hard hits, but because of them.

If you can't take it, you won't make it.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

Life is not mean to be easy.

To the stars through thorns.

You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.

There's going to be good things that get you, and there's going to be bad things that get you, so you better be willing, and your skin better be thick.

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.