Henryk Sienkiewicz Quotes

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

I want to tell the story. Mostly, when you see rock movies, it has to be this over-the-top thing. I want to give people a Bret Michaels movie where they see that my life is a comedy of errors. I also want to show my fans how to get through the kind of troubles that would leave most people flat on the floor.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

It was definitely some tough moments throughout my life, but I kind of stayed focused and came through the other end of the tunnel.

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.

If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid.'

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.

So many times in my life, people have tried to make me a failure.

If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

I just want people to know you can get through stuff. I hope people can see that in what my life has been and where it is going.

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.

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

Survival is triumph enough.

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.

I've had some wins. And been knocked down with defeats. Glimpsed views from the top of the mountain. And walked through the darkest of valleys. But through this entire ride called 'a life' - I've refused to give up.

I will remember this day for the rest of my life. There is nothing you can say. It's just like you won the match after the earthquake and it just feels great.

Life is a series of punches. It presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the people that are able to take those punches and able to move forward are the ones that really do have a lot of success and have a lot of joy in their life and have a lot of stories to tell, too.

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

'Growing Stronger' emerged from a need to relate my life experiences as well as my constant struggle to prevail each day, and as a reminder to myself of the importance of never giving up.

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

The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.

People wrote me off, but I believed in myself. I got the confidence back, and it grew and grew. I won my first major and my last at the place that changed my life.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.