Booker T. Washington 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 overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood.

To the stars through thorns.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb.

I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

The struggles I'm facing, the chances I'm taking.Sometimes they knock me down, but, no, I'm not breaking.I may not know it, but these are the momentsI am going to remember most, just got to keep going.

Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

I had to get beat to understand how to win.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

I've always believed in survival.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

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

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

My life is a beautiful struggle.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

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.