Dale Carnegie Quotes

I want people to understand that tragedy and trial does not necessarily mean that you are a victim.

I see myself as a survivor, and I'm not ashamed to say I'm a survivor. To me, survivor implies strength, implies that I have been through something and I made it out the other side.

No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.

We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.

I proved to myself that I can overcome a lot of things that probably would have broken some people.

I have had a tough life, but I am proud that I fought my battle.

I think I was as mentally tough as I've ever been. I felt like I handled the situation both on and off the court extremely well. I felt like I needed to.

If you're strong enough on the inside, you can handle anything that comes at you on the outside.

We can all be weak, but we all have to make a conscious decision to be strong.

Something always made me save myself. Either the Betty Ford Center or going onstage to perform in the theater when many people didn't think I could do it.

Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation in her own powers of self-control and endurance.

Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I'll work it out.

Baby," she says in a harsh whisper, "in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They need you to be small so they can be big. You let them think whatever they want, but you make sure you get yours. You get yours.

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

No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.

It was definitely some tough moments throughout my life, but I kind of stayed focused and came through the other end of the tunnel.

No matter what kind of challenges or difficulties or painful situations you go through in your life, we all have something deep within us that we can reach down and find the inner strength to get through them.

I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.

I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.

A lot of times when you go through a very traumatic situation and it's emotionally difficult to deal with you come back spiritually stronger. It changes you in a way.

My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work.

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.

We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.