Thomas De Quincey Quotes

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Even going back to the haters, it's messed up what they say, but that's made me stronger, and it's built me into who I am today, and I am completely fine with that.

I believe the tough fights bring out the better fighter in myself.

When you have bad moments, you have to improve. You have to become stronger to deal with it, and I believe I have become stronger.

My hardest lesson has been my most fruitful, too: that when people don't believe in me, I can prove them wrong.

I've had some ups and downs in my personal life, but I have overcame them.

A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.

Be seriously involved with growing, with your own development, and never fear. Be the kind of person who is naturally powerful, positive, ingenious, open, to the highest degree. Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality.

We all have unfair situations and things we don't like. You can get bitter, discouraged and sour, or you can see it as fertilizer and say, “ This difficulty is not going to defeat me; it's going to promote me. It's not going to hinder me; it's going to help me.” Don't just go through it, grow through it.

Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.

Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.

Learning what all you can overcome as a person, as a human being, is very important. It's very important to understand your strength. Which is not to say you become hardened or bitter.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

I'm proud of the way I've dealt with setbacks. It's hard when you feel down and you think, 'Why is the world doing this to me?' But you have to pick yourself up again. That's what makes you a better athlete.

'That which does not kill me makes me stronger' is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is a resolution.

What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.

In my life I had no other choice than to become a strong person.

Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional.

Everything's the same; I'm living with cancer and it's not going to stop me. But until you really test yourself and challenge yourself, I don't think you quite know.

I really believe I'm no different from anyone else. I just had a few challenges I had to learn from at a very early age.

There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems.

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

We're stronger than we realize.