Robin Roberts Quotes

Everyone is going to face challenges. What defines you is how you overcome those.

Obstacles are found everywhere, and in overcoming them we nourish ourselves.

To the stars through thorns.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

It's not what you accomplish in life that matters; it's what you overcome.

Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.

The things we overcome in life really become our strengths.

A friend told me 'I guess you gotta go through a lot of nightmares, before you finally, you know, accomplish your dreams.

You don't always get stronger on the days that everything comes easily to you.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

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

I thrive on adversity.

You can all get what you want to get, and so my journey was to show you how many times along the way adversity has stared me right in the face, and I've looked it right back and said, 'No.'

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

Success isn't measured by what you achieve, it's measured by the obstacles you overcome.

I've taken many knocks over the years but it has only made me stronger and more determined to succeed.

When obstacles have been put in front of me, I just get around them and move past them and laugh at them.

It's always darkest before the dawn. The bigger your challenge, the closer you are to your victory.

People naturally tend toward inertia. That's why self improvement is such a struggle. But that's also why adversity lies at the heart of every success. The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level.

We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.

Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.

It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.