AB de Villiers Quotes

Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people - we go on.' 'We take a beatin' all the time.' 'I know.' Ma chuckled. 'Maybe that makes us tough. Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good, an' they die out. But, Tom, we keep a-comin'. Don' you fret none, Tom. A different time's comin'.

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.

Those that weather the storm are the great ones.

I'm here because they've killed almost all of us, but not all of us. And that's their mistake, son. That's the flaw in their plan. Because if you don't kill all of us at once, whoever's left are not going to be the weak ones. The strong ones- and only the strong ones- will survive. The bent but unbroken, if you know what I mean. People like me. And people like you.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.

Success is survival.

You were not built for comfort and convenience. You were built to overcome.

It's the way of life in Saginaw. If you're not tough, you don't survive.

A cactus doesn't live in the desert because it likes the desert; it lives there because the desert hasn't killed it yet.

Resilience can go an awful long way.

Stephen's the great survivor, isn't he? He just goes on and on.

Tough times don't last. Tough people do. I preach that, and I guess you have to live to it.

I don't quit and can't be broken. I have been through every up and down you can imagine in the world of sports-entertainment and I am still here running strong.

Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.

We are powerful because we have survived

Just remember: Surviving is the best revenge, no matter what the disaster has been.

when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.

No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we can achieve.

When it's all said and done, you may go through the fire, through the flood, through the famine, but you'll come out standing strong.

No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up.

I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.

Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's a father working while cancer eats away his insides, to bring home one more pay check. She's a twelve-year-old trying to mother her brothers and sisters because mama had to go to Heaven. She's a switchboard operator sticking to her post while smoke chokes her and fire cuts off her escape. She's all the unsung heroes who couldn't make it but never quit.

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.