Benji Madden Quotes

If I can make it through homelessness, I can make it through anything.

Most people would identify with the fact that we tend to be defined by the struggles we came through than by the successes. And certainly for me that's true.

When I was a kid, I had to fight for everything.

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

Struggle has been a part and parcel of my life.

Every step of the way, life was hard. I was supposed to be a statistic.

Man. I've been through a lot as a kid. But at the same time that upbringing just made me stronger and made me more determined to make it out of where I made it out from and just fight extra hard to not go back.

I think there's only one interesting story... and that's struggle.

I've been fighting since I was a child, fighting to get out of my circumstances.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

My life is a struggle.

These are the times that try men's souls.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal... I walked miles and crossed rivers to school every day. Didn't have power, didn't have generators, studied with lanterns, but I never despaired.

It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

I try to show that I have no fear. When you grow up hungry, you're not afraid of anything.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.

When I am made fun of in the press I just remember those days when I'd come home to find that the water had been turned off because my mother couldn't afford the bill. Suddenly, everything feels easier.

I was definitely an at-risk kid growing up.

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

We were very poor and my family lost everything during the war - our home and our identity. But I'm a believer in luck and think the social conditions you're born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I've been lucky.

In my race, there's 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something you gotta get over, and it's what you do, you know.

I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.