Kelley Armstrong Quotes

We learn to fight and to grow strong by fighting.

When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

If we don't be going strong, we're going weak, and we can't afford to go weak. We've got too many problems to do that.

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.

There's going to be good things that get you, and there's going to be bad things that get you, so you better be willing, and your skin better be thick.

Resilience is distinct from mere survival, and more than mere endurance. Resilience is often endurance with direction.

I'm familiar with adversity.

The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period.

Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.

make away out of no way

You have to be very strong and tough-minded if you want to survive.

Surviving, that's my plan.

Life is not for the faint of heart.

There is an English saying, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." Women often become these tough ones.

That that don't kill me, can only make me stronger.

Remember - that which does not kill us can only make us stronger. And that which does kill us leaves us dead!

Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!

It is only the strong who are strengthened by suffering; the weak are made weaker.

To be a survivor as an African American man - maybe any man - you have to be pretty tough. Or at least that's what we all understand.

For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them.

I get my by any means on, whenever there's a drought get your umbrellas out because that's when I brainstorm.

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.

Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.

My father always used to say, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger," - 'til the accident.

That which does not kill me can only make me stronger.