Diane von Furstenberg Quotes

If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life.

My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.

I always tell my clients to be tough, to be strong. Never weaken yourself. I believe God favors only strong persons.

I'm not interested in playing the victim. I like stories about survivors.

Since I was a little girl, I have witnessed the strength and courage that energized my mother, who left every sorrow and pain in the past, who would work unyieldingly to obtain her goals, who was the great warrior from whom I learned all the values that are today fundamental pillars of my every day.

I knew deep down that I was going to have my little girl, even if I had to raise her on my own, which is what I did.

I think my song that reminds me of Mama is "I'm A Survivor" because she is one.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.

You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.

I believe very deeply in the human spirit, and I have a sense of awe about it. I look around and ask, 'What makes the difference? What is it?' I've known people the world has thrown everything at - to discourage them, to kill them, to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and they don't ask quarters.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

My greatest inspiration is my mother, the bravest person I ever knew. She overcame incredible odds, worked while raising two kids, and made it all look incredibly simple. Even in her final days succumbing to cancer, she fought like a champion.

What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be.

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.

If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.

I see courage everywhere I go in Africa.

I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to.

A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

I have a child to feed and a spirit that can't be crushed, so I'm able to move ahead.

But I want to pay tribute to Anna Lee Woodruff, an extraordinary, selfless woman and beautiful grandmother who in her quiet determined way was a role model for her two daughters, and who left a lasting impression on so many who knew her.

Be strong, and of good courage.

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