"You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal."
- Elizabeth Taylor
Relationships
"You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way."
- Elizabeth Taylor
Courage
"You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it; you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about your business of living. That's how I have done it. There's no other way."
- Elizabeth Taylor
Motivation
"It is very strange that the years teach us patience – that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting."
- Elizabeth Taylor
Growth
"Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together."
- Elizabeth Taylor
Empowerment
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity