Quotes About Adversity

When you have a lot of followers, you get the good and bad. So I had a career out of it. But unfortunately, I had people hating on me every single day.

I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.

I was a kid growing up in Houston, didn't have a lot - three younger brothers, a single mom. It was tough.

I had a pretty rough childhood. I was raised for a few years by my single mom, until she married my stepdad a little later.

I didn't get to train because I was raised by a single mom. There were three of us and it was just too expensive to pay for me to do martial arts practice.

I grew up with a single mother, and I wasn't out shooting too many guns.

When I was seven months pregnant with Ariana, my husband cheated on me, so I became a single mother to a four-year-old and a newborn.

For 'Downside of Bliss,' I drew upon my own personal experiences in order to play Bliss: a penniless, single mother who is estranged from her father and diagnosed with cancer.

You have to look at your situation, and 'how do I make the best of my situation every single night?' That's what I looked to do.

The whole time I was in Rio, I probably cried every single night.

I was not prepared to live as a single parent.

Because I grew up in a single parent home with my mom, growing up, things weren't always the best.

People ask me how I've raised three children as a single parent but honestly, parenting has been a breeze.

I don't think anyone imagines themselves being a single parent. But I don't have a choice.

Don't define yourself by your mistakes or by the single thing you are at your work.

I was singled out by other girls for participating in classroom discussions and physically bullied.

These days, men's singles is very hard. If you lose the first, you might lose everything.

I feel like I am constantly getting challenged by every song I sing because I'm not that lucky girl who sings 100 similar songs and becomes famous.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

You know... life can be like a big game of Battleship. The enemy knows where your ships are and is trying to call the right number and sink them. But he can't sink you if you're with God.

While most of us are trying to be more frugal, the loss of a job, a divorce, or a medical emergency can quickly sink us deeply into debt.

If you let in a goal, you don't sink into your shell, you come out even harder and put people on the back foot, home or away.

Life is for living and there is only one way to go - unless you are prepared to sink and go down with the ship, which I don't choose to do.

You need to learn a practical lesson. Grit alone is not going to save you from sinking.