Justin Bieber Quotes

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

When I started out, I struggled, and I was broke a lot. But I'm glad I struggled, and I'm glad I was broke a lot.

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 lived below the poverty line when I was young and starting out as a writer. But my wife and I kept trying to do things better, as anyone with ambition does. But just because you're trying doesn't mean you're always going to succeed.

I grew up poor. The fact that I had to struggle to succeed, that wasn't a big deal to me. I'd struggled my whole life.

I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person.

My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.

I'm pretty easily overwhelmed and pretty tough as well. I think I'm tougher than I used to be. There's been a lot of hardship along the way. But that's what life is. And it's how you deal with those things, and how you let them shape you that makes you a better person and defines what sort of person you're going to be.

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

But at the end of the day, every star, every person that been iconic, has gone through a time in their lives where it was just bad. Everybody. It just made them better.

I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.

When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.

I'm glad I've had to struggle. It's made me the artist I am now.

Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

The greatest and best of our race have necessarily been nurtured in the bracing school of poverty—the only school capable of producing the supremely great.

I grew up in a working-class neighborhood, so there was always a sense of struggle, but we had hope.

I'm very very happy for my hardships and misfortunes: they build character and make you a better person. Even if I think it's something you have to carry with you, it's definitely something that makes you more empathic towards other people, makes you understand people and relationships so much better.

What don't break you will make you.

We had nothing, no money, when I was young. We lived in a council house. My dad struggled; my mum struggled. But that made me what I am. If I had everything on a plate from the start, maybe I would not have been a champion for 11 years.

I dropped out of school; I got fired from my job. Those were my roughest moments, but I always knew through it that I was going to be great.

Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.

Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.

The challenges I have faced - among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother - are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.

Accomplishment comes from making positive efforts, even in the face of negative circumstances.