David H. Koch Quotes

You know what the doctors call me? 'The Cancer Warrior.'

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

After cancer, I ain't scared of nothing.

No matter what kind of challenges or difficulties or painful situations you go through in your life, we all have something deep within us that we can reach down and find the inner strength to get through them.

Cancer isn't going to slow me down.

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.

Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore.

I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass is much more than half full.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

John, you have broken many times, physically and otherwise, and you have always grown stronger, but what you don't really understand in my humble opinion is how much courage you give the rest of us looking at you.

I see myself as a survivor, and I'm not ashamed to say I'm a survivor. To me, survivor implies strength, implies that I have been through something and I made it out the other side.

The measure of a man's life is how he copes with the terrible wall of fear.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

In my stories, I controlled what happened in a way I couldn't in real life. My characters lived through the horror and degradation of the cruelty of others and they not only survived, they thrived. They gave me hope and laughter, and they kept me going in spite of everything else. They were my heroes.

I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.

People wrote the most beautiful things during the ugliest times.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

Whatever you're going through in your life, don't ever give up.

My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.

My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.

I just want people to know you can get through stuff. I hope people can see that in what my life has been and where it is going.