Bess Myerson 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.

I've had to be tough my whole life.

I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes.

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

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

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

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

Even as a child, I found a way to survive.

That is always what I've had to do in life: to show I am capable of surviving.

The only way to make it through life is to fight.

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

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

I have fought all my life, that is easy for me.

The only thing I know how to do is survive.

My character is 'Get up and keep fighting,' unless I've been nailed to the ground.

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.

People tell me their own stories about how they have come through great difficulty.

Life is about how much you can take and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward.

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

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