Charlotte Caffey Quotes

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

I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.

Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better.

Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.

We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.

I had my years of struggling. Some of my shows failed miserably, and I was upset by it and it dented my confidence. But I never stopped. I kept going for it.

Nothing has ever come easy for me.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn't open. The only thing I had was cracks. I'd do everything to get through those cracks - scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it's as big as a garage.

It always seems impossible until its done.

I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls.

I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.

There were times I didn't think we would ever make it, even when we were cranking two out a year.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

Female rappers get it the hardest. You have to be a girl, yet you have to be just as hard as the guys. I think some female rappers get scared out of the business before they can make it.

It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.

We shall have to pass through many a valley, many a narrow defile. Many will grow tired on the way. Of course they will mostly be those who have no reason to do so.

I have a lot of respect for my fellow young actors. It takes a lot to push forward after being told no a million times, and that was what we all have to go through. So those who push deserve respect.

There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

I've been knocked down a lot of times.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.