Jennifer Holliday Quotes

I might have had a tough break; but I have an awful lot to live for.

In difficult times, we're not supposed to quit believing; we're not supposed to quit growing.

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.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.

Life is such a precious gift. Whatever life throws at us, if we could just learn to get through that day and hang on to the next, you never know what may come. It may get worse, but you never know.

Hope is not a form of guarantee; it's a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that are very dark.

No matter how I feel, I get up, dress up, and show up for life. When I do, the day always serves up more than I could have hoped for. Each day truly is a slice of heaven. Some days the slices are just smaller than others.

When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

My favorite phrase is, 'God only gives struggles to people who can overcome it.' I saw it in a book, and it helped me out so much.

I wake up every day and think everything sure is awful, but then I ask the Lord what I can do to make it better.

Christopher believed that to overcome any adversity, no matter how challenging, you need to go forward each day with strength, determination and compassion.

When my doctors said I would never walk, I didn't believe them. I knew I wasn't meant to spend my life in a chair.

To me, faith is being thankful when things in life are going well and also being thankful when they are not. Its often through our most difficult times when faith lifts us up and gives us the courage and the strength to work even harder to accomplish a new goal or do something we never thought we could.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible events, but we cannot let them stop us. No matter what happens, I feel you must move forward with optimism and not get totally sideswiped.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Without hope we are lost.

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined.

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.