Francis Bacon Quotes

We imagine things - that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. We have no choice, so we do it.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

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'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!

You've got to stay strong to be strong in tough times.

People like to associate you with hard times and I pride myself on coming through them more than experiencing them.

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

I need to be someone who didn't break because of what I've been through.

A man endures misfortune without complaint.

I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

We all survive more than we think we can.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.

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.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.