George W. Bush Quotes

Real courage embraces the twin realities of current difficulty and ultimate triumph.

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

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

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.

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.

I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.

Everybody in life has something that they get knocked down on. The object lesson here is not that you get knocked down - it is that you get up.

It's true - ever since I was born, I've been through some tough situations. But that's what has given me the strength and the drive to succeed.

Hard days are the best because that's when champions are made.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

Even in the most difficult situation there is always, somehow, a way to triumph

I've taken many knocks over the years but it has only made me stronger and more determined to succeed.

Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.

There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts." - Gallen in "Intrigues

We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!

The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same.

There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and the neccessary skill.

When you're up against a trouble, meet it squarely, face to face. Lift your chin and set your shoulders, plant your feet and take a brace. When it's vain to try to dodge it, do the best that you can do. You may fail, but you may conquer. See it through!

When something happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

No matter what advantages you are born with-- money, intelligence, an appealing personality, a sunny outlook, or good social connections-- none of these provides a magic key to an easy existence. Somehow life manages to bring difficult problems, the causes of untold suffering and struggle. How you meet your challenges makes all the difference between the promise of success and the specter of failure.

Don't be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the 'Kite' of success generally rises AGAINST the wind of Adversity, not with it.

Failure either breaks people or it makes them succeed.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.