David Hogg Quotes

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

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

Through all the hardships and all the operations and all the hospitals, all that stuff each part of my life, there's been some goodness, some greatness that comes in here and helps me to be strong, to continue what I'm doing.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

My light shines when things get really tough.

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

This is a beautiful life we lead in spite of whatever things come against us or whatever team loses or wins.

I want to show people no matter what they go through there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

I like to think of hope as a fact and something that wins out always. Whether you're hopeful or not, actually, you do get through what you're in the middle of. When you're in it, you don't feel like that's possible. But time and time again, we're proven wrong.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

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.

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

When I said the city would be stronger, I didn't know that. I just hoped it. There are parts of you that say, 'Maybe we're not going to get through this.' You don't listen to them.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.

You can lay in bed and think you don't stand a chance, that's what all of us thought, and here we are. We ended up doing all right.

But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.

My life is a beautiful struggle.

The darkest experiences in a human being's life allow that person to either go deeper and stay depressed or get the strength to stand up stronger than ever, and that's my case.