Denise Austin Quotes

You know, it's just a matter of working through the pitfalls sometimes and working through the challenges that lie ahead.

Life is never completely without its challenges.

Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?

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

To the stars through thorns.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

I've always felt in life, you get a lot of things you have to overcome.

I've stood the test of time, weathered a lot of storms and hurdled a lot of obstacles.

You can all get what you want to get, and so my journey was to show you how many times along the way adversity has stared me right in the face, and I've looked it right back and said, 'No.'

There's always going to be bumps in the road. There's always going to be this and that, adversity. You just overcome it. It's what I've done all my life.

My life has thrown up many challenges, good and bad, and nine times out of 10 I come through them.

There have been plenty of stories of people who go through adversity and had a bump in the road. The guys who persevere and continue to work hard, it turns out OK for them.

Everyone has to face obstacles. Everybody has to face hurdles. It's what you do with those that determines how successful you're going to be.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school - you'll be tested; we gotta pass it.

If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.

The difference between people who succeed and people who fail, I think in many cases it’s not fear. Everyone experiences fear. The difference is what do you do with your fear. Do you work to overcome it or do you let it defeat you? And I think that is actually what distinguishes very successful people from others.

It's not what you accomplish in life that matters; it's what you overcome.

Success isn't measured by what you achieve, it's measured by the obstacles you overcome.

Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes.

Obstacles are found everywhere, and in overcoming them we nourish ourselves.

I'm just always trying to be positive. Negative things happen to everybody. Everyone has to face obstacles. Everybody has to face hurdles. It's what you do with those that determines how successful you're going to be.