Mark Wahlberg Quotes

Nothing will prepare you for singing the truth like about 35 years in the music business, financial troubles and a couple trips to jail, ... It will get you really humble and really truthful, and gets you ready to sing out about who and what saved you.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

Even when you've made mistakes in life, you can still contribute and pick up the stuff and move on.

I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. Lived it and I'm still here to talk about it and help someone else if I can.

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

I like to think that even if we make some really bad choices and go down some bad paths, we'll eventually emerge from it.

Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.

You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it.

I'm better for all the things that have happened to me, the good and the bad.

I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew. It made me who I am - all the good and bad - and it's where all of the songs on Here For The Party came from. I've lived them all.

Of all the unhappiness I went through, you must know I wouldn't live a moment of my life differently for what I have now. Would I do it all again? I wouldn't want to, but if it got me to the same place, yeah, I'd do it. Because I realize now that God would not give more than I could handle.

It's all the stuff I've been through in my life. From family struggles, people doubting me, things I went through as a child and going to prison, they all played a factor in who I am today. It really made me a better person. Going through those situations can make or break you as a human being.

I think any type of setback you have, any tough time you've got, getting through it is what makes you who you are. It makes you a tougher person. I think whatever you've been through in your life makes you a tougher person. I'm very grateful for the background I have, every tough situation I've been through because it's made me who I am.

Just because you've made a mistake... everybody makes mistakes. It's how you come out of it.

You've got to go through some good times and some bad times, and hopefully you're able to recover from the bad times.

In our culture, I feel like everyone just wants the good life, the dream life, but I'm learning to embrace suffering because with suffering there's so much good that comes out of it.

I can understand failure: I've failed loads of times in my life; it's not a problem. I've never feared it, because it's a part of life.

It takes experience to get through your lows.

Everybody's gone through some kind of struggle in their life, and I'd like to be the type of voice who talks about it.

It was rough growing up but it was best for me, it's what made Shannon Briggs, it's who I am.

I've dealt with a lot in my life.

You've got to go through times in your life when you're not going to make the greatest decisions. But the thing is, I always say, you grade a person on what they've become after they've made some mistakes. Because it's so easy to make mistakes when you're young.