Grant Shapps Quotes

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.

I'm a fighter and not a victim. Think of yourself and make the most of life.

If you focus on the things you can't do, you'll destroy yourself. Just remember everything you can do.

My favorite phrase is, 'God only gives struggles to people who can overcome it.' I saw it in a book, and it helped me out so much.

It is exactly in tough times when we discover our full potential, it allows our mind and body to push ourselves beyond our limits.

I want to inspire people and show people no matter what happens, no matter how much you get knocked down, you can pick yourself up. Just keep pushing forward, keep being positive.

Being competitive is in my nature. I actually think being competitive saved my life. It's given me the constant drive to be better, and when I was in that hospital bed and that wheelchair, it made me want to get better.

We can all be weak, but we all have to make a conscious decision to be strong.

Be seriously involved with growing, with your own development, and never fear. Be the kind of person who is naturally powerful, positive, ingenious, open, to the highest degree. Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality.

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

I am my own cheerleader. I am the one who puts my goals, who pushes myself to get to the next goal. I don't have someone next to me saying, 'Here you go, now do this, it's your next step, go for it.'

I went through an extremely trying ordeal, but I never forgot the world outside was a beautiful place.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how important it is to stay positive and move forward. Not every day is going to be perfect; that's life. But staying positive is going to get you to the next day.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.

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

'That which does not kill me makes me stronger' is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is a resolution.

I've been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.

You just have to keep believing in yourself.

I'm a big believer in overcoming and achieving and doing things and not feeling sorry for yourself.

The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome.