Eric Roth Quotes

Kids come up to me all the time and say, 'Once I was going through a really bad time, and I saw you crash and get up, and it inspired me.'

I'm not easily scared; from the age of 8, I learned what it means to have everything you know taken away and what it means to persevere. I approach politics the same way.

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it's fairly abnormal. As far as just not having to worry about past experiences, I've healed very well.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.

When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

I am determined to go through the horror of this world.

I was a daredevil before, and after I lost my sight I was the same. I loved riding bikes, scooters and horses. I even learned to box. Muhammad Ali is my hero.

I'm not afraid of falling and getting up the next day with a few bumps and bruises.

I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.

You don't have to be a scared person. I've had so many tragedies. I've managed to withstand things that you may think you cannot tolerate. But I have the strength.

I don't fear no man. I've had everything done to me.

I'm a survivor.

Christopher believed that to overcome any adversity, no matter how challenging, you need to go forward each day with strength, determination and compassion.

I've met quadriplegics who have lost the use of their limbs but not their spirit. They are not dark, defeated people.

When my doctors said I would never walk, I didn't believe them. I knew I wasn't meant to spend my life in a chair.

My experience as a refugee had made me strong; I could survive anything, even the world of fashion.

My biggest fear as a fighter is to be knocked out in front of millions of people. But after it actually happened, there's this calmness about you that says everything is OK.

Throw me in deep enough, and I sink or swim. I don't care who I fight.

Look what happened when I fought Anderson Silva. It can't possibly get worse than that. I've already seen the bottom and it wasn't that bad. I made it through. I survived. It's fighting. It's not the end of the world.

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.