Quotes about "Change & Growth"

Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself. ”

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless. ”

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance. ”

For me, the only thing I had to look forward to was the ring because my personal life wasn't doing that great, so my fake life was what I was holding onto. ”

For some of my friends who raise personal objections to marriage equality, they still recognize the importance of being accepting. And many of them also recognize that regardless of what they choose to believe or practice at home or at their church, that doesn't give them the right to discriminate. ”

I look at my grandparents and what they dealt with in the Japanese internment in Arizona. That sense of perseverance, of making the best out of an incredibly bad situation, has always been something I drew inspiration from. I always ask myself, 'What in the world do I have to complain about?' ”

I have a quad rep in my house, so I'm doing bench presses and pull ups on that, any sort of basic strength movements I can do at home. ”

When you love someone deeply, you give strength, and when you are loved deeply, you gain courage. ”

I've taught martial arts to many children, from 5 years old and up - there's character development, there's respect, discipline, perseverance. ”

Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind of man. ”