Francis Quarles Quotes

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

When you gotta go through something tough, I've always been a guy that just wants to get it out of the way.

You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything.

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

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

I'm a fighter. I'm a survivor, and I'll get through anything people can throw at me.

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.

I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.

Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

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.

The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.

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.

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

I am determined to go through the horror of this world.

Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.

Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my background in the sport.

When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight.

When the going gets tough, let the tough get going.

He who voluntarily confronts tremendous odds must have very great internal resources to draw upon

The only way to make it through life is to fight.

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.

You'll encounter difficulties at any job, and the best way for me to get through them is via endurance.