Quotes About Adversity

My mama didn't want me; my daddy wasn't there. So there were a lot of insecurities and low self-esteem.

I think when you're not prepared for something, success can be as crippling a thing as failure to people. I think it touches whatever insecurities you have, that you may not be as in touch with you as you should be or whatever.

I have a lot of insecurities, but you learn from your failures.

When anything bad happens, my insecurities come flooding out.

Some people will be quite happy you have failed and will find a way to tell you so directly and indirectly. Yep, that is life. Do not let their insecurities impact you.

Something deep inside me lives by challenges.

I've got that resilient thing inside me. But I wasn't a happy bunny.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

Bones inside clothes. That was war to me.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies - I was Armed with Insight.

I had nothing and lived in the most insignificant place.

Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.

I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.

When people told me that I couldn't do something, I wanted to always prove them wrong. That comes a lot from people always bullying me because of my size and not thinking that I could do anything to impact the world or inspire other people.

Sometimes, disaster can inspire ingenuity.

I feel like my story could hopefully inspire others who've faced hard times.

We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.

The incredible resiliency and spirit of the people of Louisiana is inspiring, to say the least.

Limitations are inspiring: they lead to thinking, so I don't mind them.

There's girls that grew up like me and even worse, and they need to know that there is someone out there that can give them hope with my music. It's about inspiring people and helping people.

The human spirit and what it can go through... that's pretty inspiring.

Being fired from a show - being fired in any way, in any instance, any business - is just hard.

A lot of potential scenarios create challenges. It's all about how you grew up, values instilled in you.

When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.