Tyron Woodley Quotes

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.

We were not defeated. We had been refugees. Now we were freedom fighters.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

I just like to write stories about people who survive even very difficult, impossible things.

The only way to survive is to get back up.

I’m grateful I had the strength to fight. It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come, especially when you are flat on your back and don’t know if you’re going to see tomorrow. I’m no Pollyanna, but I believe optimism is a choice — a muscle that gets stronger with use. Right foot, left foot…just keep moving.

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.

America is a country of fighters. People who fought their way in and then continued fighting.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

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.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.

I like to see people who are survivors wearing my shoes. I am fascinated by people who can bounce back.

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.

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

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

I've had some wins. And been knocked down with defeats. Glimpsed views from the top of the mountain. And walked through the darkest of valleys. But through this entire ride called 'a life' - I've refused to give up.

I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back.

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

I believe very deeply in the human spirit, and I have a sense of awe about it. I look around and ask, 'What makes the difference? What is it?' I've known people the world has thrown everything at - to discourage them, to kill them, to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and they don't ask quarters.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.

Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message.