Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.

I've been dropped. You get up, and you win the fight.

Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.

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.

I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.

A true champion will fight through anything.

When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.

I've always believed in survival.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

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

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.

Man is not made for defeat.

They've pushed me down a big ravine, but I'll get back up to the top.

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

Precious, she gets hit by life so many different ways and so many times, but she doesn't yield to it. She continues to get up and she continues to struggle for a better life.

When the going gets tough, let the tough get going.

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

Everybody in life has something that they get knocked down on. The object lesson here is not that you get knocked down - it is that you get up.

A historic defeat cannot bow our heads forever.