Andrea Seigel Quotes

Look back, and smile on perils past.

So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.

I think about all my successes and failures, and sometimes the failures stick in your head as much as the wins. But you do move on.

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

When I look back, I'm definitely proud of what I did. It kind of allows me to move forward and reset my goals.

My journey continues, because I've, you know, conquered a lot. And I know how to conquer the rest.

We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy.

We fall forward to succeed.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.

I wouldn't change anything about my past, because it's made me who I am today. You have to remember: You need to crack some eggs to make omelettes. And I did crack some eggs.

It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.

Just like gold, which has to weather very high temperatures to achieve the sheen and shine it finally gets, so also every person has to go through struggles in his life to achieve success.

You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's where I was.

It's important to learn and not repeat the same mistakes. What's done is done.

I think it's always the moments that are the trials that end up making you become a hero in the end. You're not a hero unless you've gone through the trials. And it makes these moments so much sweeter, so much better. I don't believe in 'deserved,' but I might believe in 'earned.'

What I'm proud of, we learned from our lessons.

I've had a long, long road with lots of ups and downs. But that's all behind me now.

Experience is a really wonderful thing, and in a way we've been fortunate to have had so many ups and downs in our career, and a lot of struggles and a lot of sacrifices. But again, that's just an athlete's story.

The story of New Order is all about learning from our mistakes.

It keeps me humble just to know exactly where I came from and all the hard work I had to put in to be here. It feels good to reminisce about the past.

I'm really happy for my son. He's turned his life around. I'm so proud of him.

There have been a lot of challenges over the years that I have overcome.