Beverly Sills Quotes

You can overcome anything.

Whatever you're going through in your life, don't ever give up.

Challenges are meant to be met and overcome.

You hit road blocks in life, but I'm living proof that you can overcome those road blocks and become what you want to become.

Anything is possible. My background is a bad background, but a lot of people said I couldn't do it. You can do anything if you put your mind to it.

You don't have to let a bad experience stop you from doing what you want to do.

Not many people get up after a setback or two. But those who do make the impossible come true.

When they say you can't, show them you can.

People have been calling me names and setting me back my whole life. And with every fight it's just given me more fuel to my fire and in doing so I've become a success.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

Things come and go - there's win, losses, and injuries, but you get back on the horse - but I appreciate what I've done more.

I turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.

'Black girl magic' means, to me, just getting out there and doing it every day and not letting anything get you down.

We have done the impossible. And that makes us mighty.

I try and tell all the kids that I meet that hope to be amazing one day and be a professional athlete or a doctor or a lawyer or whatever they want to be. I tell them they can do all that because Tourette's won't stop them.

Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.

The kind of music I'm dealing with is more a long-term music. Sometimes a little discourage runs along on your thought, but I am here to push it back. Discourage is a sign of weakness, and I don't like to be weak.

I have a motto on my bedroom wall: 'Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.' Giving up is not my style. I just want to do something that's worthwhile.

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

You actually can make it, no matter what. I truly am a firm believer in that. Eminem's living proof.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

My parents always told me that nothing was impossible.

When people criticize me, instead of putting my head down, it gives me energy to do even more.