Marie Lu Quotes

The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... And fight for what you believe in?

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.

Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

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

Cancer didn't bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet.

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.

I said in my mind, 'keep fighting.'

Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.

Be strong, and of good courage.

No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.

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

One should be brave. It's life, there will be ups and downs. It's only when you are down, that you get the strength to get back up.

When things get you in the corner, and it feels like you can't go on, you can fight back. You're never out of the fight.

I had to suffer, I had to fight, and now I feel great.

Even when I'm in pain, I play.

I am resilient like my mother and have the ability to face any kind of storm.

I have been compelled to dig deep inside and pull out strengths I never knew I possessed in order to protect my family.

When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.

That voice that cries out doesn't have to be a weakling's does it?

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.

If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it!

So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important— self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes.

It takes a special kind of person to fight back.