Laurie Holden Quotes

We do not invest in victims, we invest in survivors.

Throw me in deep enough, and I sink or swim. I don't care who I fight.

I want people to understand that tragedy and trial does not necessarily mean that you are a victim.

I have to laugh because despite the destruction, we cannot let 'them' steal our pleasure. That is always the theme of my performances: I'm here to thrive, not just to survive.

I've always believed in survival.

Everybody is not a victim.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!

I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

I'm always looking for a story of survival.

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.

We were not defeated. We had been refugees. Now we were freedom fighters.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise

He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

I embraced every struggle because it made me the fighter I was.

I don't want to be a victim. I want to be a victor.

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

I'm a survivor.

I have too much to live for to allow a bunch of cowards to take my joy. I refuse to give them my joy.

People have been calling me names and setting me back my whole life. And with every fight it's just given me more fuel to my fire and in doing so I've become a success.

I'm not easily scared; from the age of 8, I learned what it means to have everything you know taken away and what it means to persevere. I approach politics the same way.