Judy Collins Quotes

Disabilities and misfortune can make you stronger.

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

Just know that all the pain that I've been through, it made me strong.

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

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

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

The darkest experiences in a human being's life allow that person to either go deeper and stay depressed or get the strength to stand up stronger than ever, and that's my case.

The struggle I went through has value.

I was very down as a teenager, very upset because I had gotten hurt in a car accident. But my dad was a source of strength. He used to say, 'It's the character with strength that God gives the most challenges to.' I've thought about that so many times in my life when things didn't go right.

When 'stuff' hits the fan, it has a way of making you stronger.

I embraced every struggle because it made me the fighter I was.

What doesn't kill you, if you use it to make yourself stronger, then you will get stronger. But if you let it beat you down, then you will be weaker.

I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I really believe that.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.

I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.