Frank Herbert Quotes

Strength is nothing more than enduring life - to be able to survive the heartaches and agonies we go through with our heads held high. Sometimes just walking through adversity to get to the other side is a sign of strength.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

Once you go through something and come out of the storm, you've been tested.

People say, That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn't kill you doesn't kill you. That's all you get. Sometimes, you just have to hope that's enough.

To be fully human is...to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other.

When it's all said and done, you may go through the fire, through the flood, through the famine, but you'll come out standing strong.

That which does not kill me can only make me stronger.

I've gone through many, many things. I tell you something, that if it doesn't kill you, you get stronger.

If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Hunker down like a jackass in a hail storm and wait till the wind stops blowing.

Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

Carry on, carry on, what don't kill us makes us strong.

The struggles I'm facing, The chances I'm taking, Sometimes might knock me down, But no, I'm not breaking.

Whoever lives sincerely and encounters much trouble and disappointment without being bowed down is worth more than one who has always sailed before the wind and has only known prosperity.

And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.

All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.

What did you do when the worst thing that could happen to you had already happened - how did you live life then? You had to hand it to Theo Wyre, just carrying on living required a strength and courage that most people didn't have.

We are powerful because we have survived

I give it up to women who have the power to keep their spirit alive under very difficult circumstances.

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

My mother always said that the strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell.

But...as bad as it was, I learned something about myself. That I could go through something like that and survive. I mean, I know it could have been worse--a lot worse-- but for me, it was all I could have handled at the time. And I learned from it.