Shawn Colvin Quotes

Sometimes I think back to everything I've been through, and I wonder, 'Man, how the hell did I get here?'

That I've lasted is one of my greatest accomplishments. Maybe my greatest.

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

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

I have had some good fortune in the world of television. I have had it late in life after many youthful struggles and a change of careers.

'Victory' is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It's just about reaching a place in myself.

I think I created my own narrative, being a guy who kind of got chewed up and put through the grinder and coming out on top.

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

To survive is to win.

In my stories, I controlled what happened in a way I couldn't in real life. My characters lived through the horror and degradation of the cruelty of others and they not only survived, they thrived. They gave me hope and laughter, and they kept me going in spite of everything else. They were my heroes.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.

I feel like I have a Ph.D. in life, I'm a survivor. I've not only survived, I've thrived.

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.

I had to overcome challenge after challenge in order to take my life from nothing to living my dreams.

I've had an incredible life with a lot of triumphs, my share of heartbreak, and some pretty amazing experiences.

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.

I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.

Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.