Charles B. Rangel 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.

If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.

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

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

My experience as a refugee had made me strong; I could survive anything, even the world of fashion.

Once you go through something and come out of the storm, you've been tested.

These are the times that try men's souls.

It was really a pleasure to play someone who's literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

I am determined to go through the horror of this world.

The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.

My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.

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

I may have some things tougher than the average person, but there are a lot of people who are going through worse things than me. I can't live in fear.

People striving, being knocked down and coming back... this is what builds character in a man.

My whole life, I have had to fight.

I don't think one ever stops struggling.

Life kicks you hard but you have to be a man to come back.

As long as you don't fold up and curl up into a ball, you'll be all right.

I had to face imprisonment and house arrests, but it made me tougher.

You either fall, or you fight - and I chose to fight.

It is definitely hard when you're going against the tide. Of course, it is tough. But does that mean you can't do it? No, it depends on your strength, stamina and ability to take so much power against you.

Sometimes when we get our ass kicked and we're down, sometimes we stay down, and sometimes we get depressed and sometimes we don't know how to handle it, and sometimes we don't know what's going on, and sometimes we feel like it's not worth going on.

Hardships make or break people.