Charles Dickens Quotes

The theme of my life is overcoming. It is my personal mantra and what I help other people do.

If you take each challenge one step at a time, with faith in every footstep, your strength and understanding will increase.

Out of resistance comes strength.

We draw our strength from the great oaks of the forest. As they take their nourishment from the soil, and from the rains that feed the soil, so we find our courage in the pattern of living things around us. They stand through storm and tempest. They grow and renew themselves. Like a grove of young oaks, we remain strong.

Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.

A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy

I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.

I think you use the negative things that happen from the year before - and from other years, too - to spur you to do the things you need to do to take the next step.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

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

I'm a fighter by nature and nothing will ever change that.

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.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person.

I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.

Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person.

Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

My life is a beautiful struggle.

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

The wonderful Mozambican people have endured tremendous misery without losing their dignity and their positive outlook on life. Moreover, they have not lost their will to progress and develop. Mozambique is a country where the people never surrendered.

The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.