Sophie Swetchine Quotes

I've often thought that when something is hard for you, whether it's going to law school or anything else that challenges you, that's probably what you should do.

The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!

You have to play the cards you are dealt and if it has made it harder, it doesn't matter, you still have to get the deal done.

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

I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.

There is no success without hardship.

I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.

Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

I thrive on obstacles. If I'm told that it can't be told, then I push harder.

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.

All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and must be both enterprised and overcome with answerable courages.

Sail against the wind.

To the stars through thorns.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

Let us not alter our course simply because it leads into a dark thicket of work.

You're going to hit some rough patches. You're going to run into obstacles. People are going to say, 'You can't do it.' But you have to persevere. You have to keep working hard and believing in yourself.

Persevering is a fight. That's what a fight is. You face something, you persevere through it, you meet it head on.

I've had a lot of bumps in the road, but I kept my head down and kept working.

You can all get what you want to get, and so my journey was to show you how many times along the way adversity has stared me right in the face, and I've looked it right back and said, 'No.'

Not everybody gets to play their first year or second year. Some people have to go through adversity.

I never went through an easy fight. Every fight has been hard fought.

My whole life I've worked. My whole life I've been counted out.

Nothing in my life has really ever been easy. I've always been someone who did it uphill.