Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

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 always believed in survival.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

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

I'm a fighter. I'm a survivor, and I'll get through anything people can throw at me.

I've had to be tough my whole life.

Life is tough, but I'm tougher.

The weak have no place here, in this life or any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

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

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

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

In America, you don't have to be weak, you have to be strong.

Even as a child, I found a way to survive.

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

You don't have to be a scared person. I've had so many tragedies. I've managed to withstand things that you may think you cannot tolerate. But I have the strength.

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

I have been fascinated with survival and having to go on no matter what. That always appealed to me.

Tough times don't last. Tough people do. I preach that, and I guess you have to live to it.

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

You have to be very strong and tough-minded if you want to survive.

Life is not for the faint of heart.

The story of survival is a nice metaphor for our experience making this movie, finding your inner strength and powering through and getting to the endpoint alive.

My father left me with a saying that I've carried my entire life and tried to pass on to our kids: 'Tough times don't last, tough people do,'

Life never forgives weaknesses.