Claire McCaskill Quotes

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.

Life is warfare.

I fought for my survival since infancy.

I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.

My parents believe in the principle of ‘sink or swim,’ or ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger ― or it kills you.” From “The Education of Robert Nifkin

The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity

I've had my ups. I've had my downs, but I've been able to push through every obstacle that's been thrown my way.

My life is a struggle.

Life has to be dangerous.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

There's always been adversity, wherever I've gone.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

My life is a beautiful struggle.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

In so many things, growth comes from adversity.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

I've been fighting my whole life.

Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.

Ah, in work, love and the movies, everything is a fight.

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

Competition is not going to kill us.

I've always embraced battles that are a daily occurrence.