Eric Berry Quotes

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

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.

When my doctors said I would never walk, I didn't believe them. I knew I wasn't meant to spend my life in a chair.

Not everything happens as we want or desire. It doesn't matter. I'm a fighter, and I'm ready to fight every time.

We can feel sad, hurt, demoralized. But we can't give up.

I turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.

No matter where I came from, I'm a fighter.

It's true - ever since I was born, I've been through some tough situations. But that's what has given me the strength and the drive to succeed.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

Don't let a kick in the ass stop you. It's how you cope that says what you are.

You're gonna have to go through hell, worse than any nightmare you've ever dreamed. But when it's over, I know you'll be the one standing. You know what you have to do. DO IT!

It's easy to just give everything up, but it takes a lot of strength and a lot of willpower to just make yourself stay on it and get up and do something different. And I had to do that.

It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setback. They are champions because they've been hurt. Their experience moved them, and they pulled out this fighting spirit, making them what they are. Sometimes in life, God gives us a difficulty in order to bring out the fighting spirit. Everything that happens to you can happen for good if you have this spirit. The essential thing in life is not in the conquering, but in the fight.

We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.

I know that you that you may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. If you accept that you have been defeated, you give power to the force that is trying to defeat you.

The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... And fight for what you believe in?

When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Whatever you're going through in your life, don't ever give up.

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.