Jennifer Holliday Quotes

I didn't go to America to be a star, but to try to reclaim my life.

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

Your past does not determine who you are. Your past prepares you for who you are to become.

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.

Dumped? Fired? Scorned? Humiliated? Totally pissed off? If so, I've got great news! You might be on your way to living your best life ever - if you consciously choose to channel this pain into fuel - and use it to motivate yourself to become your highest potential self!

We're all capable of being more than we presently are, and the effort that it takes and the will that it takes and sometimes the trauma and tragedy that it takes to force us into that kind of growth is the story of our lives.

I have overcome some demons in my path.

This world and life of ours are filled with inequalities. The worst possible use to make of this fact, however, is to allow resentments to possess us. All of us have imagined limitations, but we have also the privilege of pushing them aside, and spreading our lives out! We never know any of our limitations until we put ourselves to the test. There are always "growing pains" working within us.

It is the measure of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light.

Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day - as long as you treat it that way.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Oprah is wildly successful, and she's a brilliant businesswoman. She's also somebody who's overcome a ton of demons in her own life, and that's really what shaped her. I think the same could be said for me.

It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.

Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

I really want to keep at it until I find out what I'm capable of.

What's interesting is with a lot of the work I do through my foundation, the 'Manifest Your Destiny' foundation, we really encourage people, and we attempt to empower, uplift and inspire people to live out their dreams, live out their destiny.

I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.