Nancy Wilson Quotes

Rule number one in negotiating anything with Missy is never try and run me over. Never push me, because I am a very strong woman. I'm nice, but I'm very strong. When it gets down gritty, I can get grittier. Never, ever underestimate me.

I've got a little fight in me, but I think that's good.

People call me a whole lot of things, but above anything else, I'm a fighter, and it's going to be hard to accept an identity without that.

If I have to be fierce, I'll be fierce.

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy.

You really have to have a voice, especially as a female. You've got to be strong-minded and really focus on what your goal is - you can't be all over the place.

I have always said about myself I am a survivor because I am.

It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

I think it's so wrong to play the victim. There's too many brave women out there that just won't even tolerate it, you know?

The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome.

I've seen too much in life to give up.

Since I was a little girl, I have witnessed the strength and courage that energized my mother, who left every sorrow and pain in the past, who would work unyieldingly to obtain her goals, who was the great warrior from whom I learned all the values that are today fundamental pillars of my every day.

I am a fighter. I'm not just there to go along and get along.

Even in my really bad, drugged-out days, I didn't go away. I still toured, still did interviews. I never gave up the fight. That's why I'm who I am today, because I didn't leave. And I think I made the right choice.

The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.

Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.

I'm a very strong woman.

Freedom can never be reached by the weak.

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.

You can knock me down, but I get up twice as strong.

I do consider myself to be a smart, tough girl.

Be brave and be fearless, and for God's sake, stand up for yourself.

The only way to make it through life is to fight.

We have numerous examples of perseverance in the scriptures, in secular history, and in our own experiences.

People striving, being knocked down and coming back... this is what builds character in a man.