Robin McKinley Quotes

I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.

Life always has a bit of a challenge in front of you, and that's what makes you fight for it.

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.

Life is a challenge that you need. There's things in life that are going to throw you into the ground, but if you learn how to get up, that means you are not a quitter.

It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems.

To the stars through thorns.

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

To choose always the hardest.

There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts." - Gallen in "Intrigues

Wow, you survived a blackout. You're made of stronger stuff than ice cream.

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.

The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.

This isn't going to be easy," I grumbled as we headed toward the exit. Bones shrugged. "Nothing worthwhile ever is.

I was raised to face any challenge.

Wherever there's hope there's a trial.

For every difficulty that supposedly stops a person from succeeding there are thousands who have had it a lot worse and have succeeded anyway. So can you.

Hardships and handicaps can...stimulate our energy to survive them. You'll find if you study the lives of people who've accomplished things, it's often been done with the help of great willpower in overcoming this and that.

In adversity keep motivated, for often the best comes from difficulty.

I fell so many times and got back up. I been through the toughest times with my family, but I’m still standing.

You have to learn how to fight through when it sucks and it's really hard.

I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.

When I say 'fighter,' I am thinking about how you deal with adversity, how you deal with being in bad situations.