Flannery O'Connor Quotes

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

People say, That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn't kill you doesn't kill you. That's all you get. Sometimes, you just have to hope that's enough.

I'm not insecure. I've been through way too much f**king sh*t to be insecure. I've got huge balls. But I've been humbled. That makes you grateful for every day you have.

You when the storm is raging - how do you face despair? It is you that the world discovers, whatever the clothes you wear.

People never fail to amaze me. They face the unimaginable with a shot of grace and a rush of adrenaline; they steel their nerves; they summon their cool or anger or faith or whatever it takes to pull them through, and they go on to live another day.

To be emotionally resilient and to overcome your circumstances, not through fighting, but through being courageous and having endurance was something I thought was of primary importance.

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

I can't go on. I'll go on.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

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

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up.

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.

In tough times, that's when you see true colours and personality.