Carol Vorderman Quotes

I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more.

I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.

I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.

I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried.

The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.

I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by my family to work, and instead of remaining in the position into which I was sent, I somehow worked my way out of it without any help from anyone, just luck.

I'm living proof you can excel regardless of where you come from.

I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.

I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

I come from zero and I've had to push myself up to where I am today. I'm not going to give up and I'm going to keep pushing.

Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how hard you work, how patient you've become.

I'm just grateful that I didn't give up on myself and I just kept plugging at it.

I had a pursuit different from others because they all came from downtown areas with money, but I didn't have any. All I wanted is to change my destiny with my own efforts.

It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.

Accomplishment comes from making positive efforts, even in the face of negative circumstances.

The path of least resistance will never make you proud.

The elevator to success is broken, take the stairs.

Man has become great through struggle

A man can overcome his background, even as he can overcome a skilled opponent.

I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.

I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies. There I decided that my big aim was to make money. And it was there that I became a very determined woman.

I have a message for the young kids. Life is about obstacles, endeavors in life are not to be overlooked.

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.