Brad Henry Quotes

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

I believe very deeply in the human spirit, and I have a sense of awe about it. I look around and ask, 'What makes the difference? What is it?' I've known people the world has thrown everything at - to discourage them, to kill them, to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and they don't ask quarters.

I have a child to feed and a spirit that can't be crushed, so I'm able to move ahead.

I've been in the boxing ring, taking punches to my face. I've always got back up.

I just like to write stories about people who survive even very difficult, impossible things.

The only way to survive is to get back up.

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith.

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.

If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid.'

I've always believed in survival.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible events, but we cannot let them stop us. No matter what happens, I feel you must move forward with optimism and not get totally sideswiped.

I like to see people who are survivors wearing my shoes. I am fascinated by people who can bounce back.

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

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

I'm always looking for a story of survival.

If you fall, get back up. That's what life is about.