Drew Barrymore Quotes

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

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

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.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

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

I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

Once you've been through tough times, you can only become stronger.

The stuff I've seen and lived and survived. Gun to my head, cops coming to your house. I had the confidence of telling myself that I'm going to make it. Everything I've been through, I could've had a mental breakdown, but I kept it together. If I didn't have that confidence I wouldn't have made it. That confidence has nothing to do with basketball.

That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.

Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.

My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.

With, or despite our scars, we stay alive.

I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.

I’m grateful I had the strength to fight. It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come, especially when you are flat on your back and don’t know if you’re going to see tomorrow. I’m no Pollyanna, but I believe optimism is a choice — a muscle that gets stronger with use. Right foot, left foot…just keep moving.

If they hadn’t tried to break me down, I wouldn’t know that I’m unbreakable.

I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.

people are strong despite suffering, not because of it.

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

You're always going to face criticism, you're always going to face challenges, but those things are there to make you stronger and more committed.

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

He that is down needs fear no fall.

When you go through enough dark places, you don't complain about little things. You don't lose your joy because you got stuck in traffic; you don't get offended because a coworker was rude to you. You've been through too much to let that sour you.