Top 35 Robin Roberts Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “When fear knocks, let faith answer the door.”

— Robin Roberts

2. “It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come!”

— Robin Roberts

3. “Optimism is a muscle that gets stronger with use.”

— Robin Roberts

4. “Being optimistic is like a muscle that gets stronger with use. Makes it easier when the tough times arrive. You have to change the way you think in order to change the way you feel.”

— Robin Roberts

5. “Venture outside your comfort zone. To stop growing is to stop living.”

— Robin Roberts

6. “Life is not so much what you accomplish as what you overcome.”

— Robin Roberts

7. “Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning.”

— Robin Roberts

8. “It’s about focusing on the fight and not the fright.”

— Robin Roberts

9. “As I like to say, take the shot, even if your knees are shaking.”

— Robin Roberts

10. “Dreams are vague and far away. Goals are tangible and achievable.”

— Robin Roberts

11. “I am stronger than I thought I was. My favorite phrase has been ‘This too shall pass.’ I now understand it really well.”

— Robin Roberts

12. “Find the meaning behind whatever it is you’re going through because everybody’s got something.”

— Robin Roberts

13. “I love a doctor who can respect that somebody else is on your team, and that’s God.”

— Robin Roberts

14. “At one point, we were all fearful. But as you get older, it’s the things you don’t do that you regret, more so than the things you do. When fear knocks, answer.”

— Robin Roberts

15. “Oh well, the truth hurts, doesn’t it?”

— Robin Roberts

16. “I was brought up with the 3 Ds: Determination, Discipline and Da Lord.”

— Robin Roberts

17. “I feel it’s okay to get angry with God. He can take it. Just don’t stay angry. It takes courage to believe that the best is yet to come. I hold steadfast to that belief, especially when I come face-to-face with adversity.”

— Robin Roberts

18. “Good Lord willing and the creek don’t rise.”

— Robin Roberts

19. “You have to be willing to put yourself in position for good things to happen.”

— Robin Roberts

20. “I want people to know there are infinite possibilities in life to be grateful for. I love that people feel comfortable coming up to me and telling me stories about things they have gone through.”

— Robin Roberts

21. “I have never been happier, or healthier, than I am right now.”

— Robin Roberts

22. “My mama told me in college, ‘I love you, and you’re God’s child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.’”

— Robin Roberts

23. “We are all a little bit stronger than we think we are.”

— Robin Roberts

24. “Things happen along the way in our path. Instead of looking at it as a wall that’s being put up in front of us, look at it as as opportunity to scale new heights and to climb that wall – to see and do things you didn’t think you were capable of.”

— Robin Roberts

25. “The tragedy is not so much the experience that you’re having. The tragedy is that we don’t take the time to understand the meaning and purpose behind what we’re going through.”

— Robin Roberts

26. “Everything’s the same; I’m living with cancer and it’s not going to stop me. But until you really test yourself and challenge yourself, I don’t think you quite know.”

— Robin Roberts

27. “Generally in the Little League you’re up against a good pitcher who throws like hell. What does the coach say? Get a walk. Isn’t that beautiful way to learn to hit? For four years you stand up there looking for a walk.”

— Robin Roberts

28. “I bet if we all threw our problems in a huge pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back. Don’t compare your life to others’. You have no idea what their journey is about. That’s why I always give people the benefit of the doubt; it’s one of my rules to live by. There may be a reason why someone is having a bad day, there’s often something that we can’t see. She is not necessarily a bad person, just someone facing a bad situation.”

— Robin Roberts

29. “I cannot believe how fine I am with being bald.”

— Robin Roberts

30. “When my mother makes out her income tax return every year, under occupation she writes, eroding my daughter’s self-esteem.”

— Robin Roberts

31. “Before, I would play a little hoops, a little tennis. Now it’s more yoga, Pilates, stretching, some light weight work, push-ups, sit-ups, resistance things. When I used to live on the eleventh floor, I would take the steps. I don’t do that so much now. I’m taking the elevator a bit more these days.”

— Robin Roberts

32. “There is no magical reason why I am where I am. And there is absolutely no reason why you can’t be where you want to be. If it can happen for me, it can happen for you, too. And it would be a privilege for me to help you get there.”

— Robin Roberts

33. “But the best part of the evening was that there were whole hours when we sat around the fire pit and didn’t say a word. We were together as a group, but they knew I needed silence. That can be very hard for friends.”

— Robin Roberts

34. “The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life.”

— Robin Roberts

35. “You need to be surrounded by people whose voices echo your soul voice.”

— Robin Roberts

36. “Do you know that some women actually refuse to be treated for fear of losing their hair? In the words of my friend India Arie: “Hey, I am not my hair. I am not this skin. I am a soul that lives within.” I wanted to make a statement that I wasn’t ashamed to have cancer or be bald. I was absolutely stunned by the reaction to my video diary. The outpouring of support was overwhelming.”

— Robin Roberts

37. “It was part of the reason I almost didn’t go public with my diagnosis – I was embarrassed. I felt, ‘Oh, I’ve always talked about exercising. And I got cancer.’ And then I realized it’s a great example of showing that cancer can hit anyone at any time.”

— Robin Roberts

38. “I think there’s a myth that people feel, that people of success are never fearful, that we’re never challenged, that we have some supernova – no, we’re like everybody else.”

— Robin Roberts

39. “I’ve taken my cue from people here and from viewers, especially survivors-who said, ‘When it’s time to literally flip your wig, you’ll know.’”

— Robin Roberts