Marilyn French Quotes

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

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Sometimes the hurdles aren't really hurdles at all. They're welcome challenges, tests.

Everyone has to face obstacles. Everybody has to face hurdles. It's what you do with those that determines how successful you're going to be.

You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

You learn a lot more from those bumps than from when things are going great.

I've had many setbacks.

Life is a never-ending stream of problems that must be confronted, surmounted, and/or solved.

Sometimes, you fall into a ditch without knowing it is there, without seeing it, but you try to come out of it. If you fall again, you will jump out again.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school - you'll be tested; we gotta pass it.

We all have roadblocks; we all have challenges.

There is absolutely no path you can choose in life that will not include challenges or blocks. These are important because they are what make you appreciate your successes.

Even the accomplished suffers setbacks sometimes. The more bitter the lessons, the greater the successes will be.

No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

I don't think of my characters as bumbling. I think that trouble is what drives a novel, both big troubles and small troubles, and whatever people try to do in life, there are a series of stumbling-blocks in the way, and I think that makes for interesting reading. I think of them as doing their best with the roadblocks that they're given.

People don't like success.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.

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

Even when you're successful, even when you win the game, about an hour after the game, you have a litany of things that you now deal with that are problematic... So the times that you are happy are minute compared to the time that you're dealing with problems.