Scott Westerfeld Quotes

Don't give up. You're going to get kicked in the teeth. A lot. Learn to take a hit, then pick yourself up off the floor. Resilience is the true key to success.

Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.

Take It From Me: Life's a Struggle but You Can Win

Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.

I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.

In my race, there's 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something you gotta get over, and it's what you do, you know.

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.

I like underdogs, I like anti-heroes - people that have a hard time overcoming things in life.

You've got to have steel in you somewhere.

The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

The best way out is always through.

I struggled many times when maybe it didn't look like I was struggling, and I had to work hard every day.

There were times when rehab and the halfway house were very, very tough, but I never felt that I wanted to leave.

There is so much work to working that there are moments, moments, where I stop and look around, and it seems too arduous to go on. It isn't, of course.

No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.

I've had to be tough my whole life.

Disabilities and misfortune can make you stronger.

After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us toward is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. For however important chastity (or courage, or truthfulness, or any other virtue) may be, this process trains us in habits of the soul which are more important still. It cures our illusions about ourselves and teaches us to depend on God. We learn, on the one hand, that we cannot trust ourselves even in our best moments, and, on the other, that we need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven.

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.

Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred.

Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

My life has been full of struggles - coming from a troubled home, moving out when I was fifteen, ending up homeless by eighteen. The one thing I always knew was being jaded and bitter was equal to letting life win.