Debbie Gibson Quotes

I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

Had my own car at twelve years old. Left school in the tenth grade. Married when I was sixteen. Ain't hard to figure out; I was a man at a very young age.

I would not call it a difficult life, really. I just had a lot of challenges at a very young age.

Because I don't look like I'm skating around as hard as Bobby Bassen doesn't mean my mind isn't working twice as hard as Bobby's mind. Just because I can't fight like Kelly Chase doesn't mean standing in front of the net getting cross-checked and slashed isn't toughness as well.

You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.

When at a young age you learn to face your fears, that makes the difference between people being champions and people not being champions.

That's where I get my toughness in mind. From my background when I was young, everything I've been through, everything I was going through in my life. It helped me a lot, it helped me to be strong.

My high threshold for pain will allow me to battle through pretty much anything if I find a way to run and slide.

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.

The pain barrier was not a barrier for her; she could go beyond it.

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

I think when you are younger you bounce back quicker from knocks.

Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.

Stamina. There is a greater physical element to this job than you would think, just being able to grind it out. And I think your ability to not just mentally and emotionally, but physically be able to say, "We got this. We're going to be OK."

There is my favorite quote that I ever heard from her [Lori Petty],... 'Things can happen to you, but they don't have to happen to your soul.'

Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.

The secret of survival is a defective imagination.

It's okay to doubt yourself, it's okay to feel down; just never give up.

Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors.

Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

In the end what you don't surrender, well, the world just strips away.

I became a player who goes to a lot of effort while training, who can rely on his will and his mental strengths.