Tina Knowles Quotes

Scars remind you of difficult places in your life that you've championed.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

We've all fallen, but at the same time we're not broken. There is the hint that we are going to get up again.

No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.

I just want people to know that they can make it through hard times like I did.

No matter what hard thing you may go through or what kind of pain you may go through there is still hope.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.

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

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

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

I've gone through my trials and tribulations, and sure, it's gotten bumpy and all that, but I'm here. OK?

Survival is triumph enough.

I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.

My life is a beautiful struggle.

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

The struggle I went through has value.

Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living.

If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.

I've learned the lesson that when you're in the middle of something that seems overwhelming, or you're in a bad situation and it seems like it's the end of the world or whatever, then you learn that it's not.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

To the stars through thorns.