Nancy Dubuc Quotes

America isn't easy. America takes work.

My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.

When you reach for the stars, you lose blood and tears. That's something you should remember.

My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20, and working and paying the bills, and, you know, trying to pursue your own dreams, I think is a feat that is unmatched.

Freedom is not free, and we all have a lot of work ahead of us. And I perform the ultimate soundtrack to get the job done every day. We're not having any fun at all.

I don't think about those things, really. I work hard on everything I do. Everything is a struggle, everything is hard, everything is difficult.

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.

I like struggle.

Easy doesn't do it.

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.

Sweat saves blood.

There is no success without hardship.

There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

Easy is not an option!

To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

The Republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.

That people [the Founding Fathers] were few in numbers and without resources, save only their wise heads and stout hearts.

‘Tis better to have fought and lost, Than not to have fought at all.

America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.

Every medal I have won is a story of a difficult struggle.

America itself has been through so many challenges since that fateful day back in 1776. Our culture has been a roll-up-your-sleeves-and-go-to-work culture.