Elizabeth Taylor Quotes

The only thing I know how to do is survive.

I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

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

I've been through worst, seen worst.

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

Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.

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.

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

Tough times don't last, but tough people do. And I've been through some tough times, and I know a lot of people can recall tough times, and maybe are going through some tough times right now, but they don't last.

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 mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

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

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.

The greater the burden a man takes upon his shoulders, the stronger he must be to carry it. No words are unmentionable, no action or horror beyond powers of description, if one is equal to them.

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

The only thing I pray for is the strength to go out without complaining.

I think survival, with agency intact, is heroic for anyone or anything.

I had to fight; I had to fall, and I had to get hurt to be where I am.

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