Quotes About Adversity

I've never been much of a trash-talker, and it probably goes back to playing driveway basketball when I was 12. It's never worked out for me. I've never flexed that muscle! It's not my style.

My height is no longer growing, but my muscle is still growing.

I've seen the highs and lows not just of the music business but of life.

I've been through a lot in the music industry, in life. I've learned that I have to be tough in this world.

My music video for 'Go Fish' is really fun. Just like the card game, if you're dealt a crappy hand, play it the best you can and you can always pick another card and try again. It's my little message.

Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

I am not the type of person who lets the pressure get to him. I try to see it as my friend. I align with it to calm me down.

I always say that failure was my friend. I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.

Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.

I think getting rid of my leg was getting rid of the past and getting ready for my journey ahead.

I've never forgot my roots and where I came from, and I'd not change a thing about my journey.

My journey has been a very fun one because I've chosen to make the best of every challenge that I've had along the way no matter what.

You can all get what you want to get, and so my journey was to show you how many times along the way adversity has stared me right in the face, and I've looked it right back and said, 'No.'

My journey, my life, has not been easy. I have had to fight.

My journey has not been a bed of roses.

In the midst of hardship, it was the music that restored my soul.

I kept giving up runs. It was, for sure, a rough road and a very rocky one. I enjoyed my time there, but not as much as I could have if I would have pitched well.

You find yourself in this place where you really get to find out what you're made of, and what I found was that when I was at my time of greatest need, there were people who appeared in my life, and helped me through it.

Most of my time as a legislator, I served in the minority. So I'm used to getting the heel of a loaf of bread.

I expect that it won't be an easy road once 'The L Word' is over, but I'm gonna do everything in my power during my time off to do other things that show another side of me.

I get flak from everybody, which is how I know I'm living my truth.

You have to use your pain as your gift. If you're able to take something really negative and repackage it as something positive, you've nailed it.

My character is 'Get up and keep fighting,' unless I've been nailed to the ground.