El DeBarge Quotes

You can be going through hardships sometimes, and you're struggling, and then you're wondering if you're ever gonna make it.

I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter how difficult things are, if you continue to move forward in life, you can eventually become victorious, even if it's later in life.

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

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

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

You can lay in bed and think you don't stand a chance, that's what all of us thought, and here we are. We ended up doing all right.

I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance.

No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.

I just want fans to walk away knowing that no matter what's going on, no matter how happy you are, no matter how sad you are, we did it. We're strong in this. We've come a long way, and life is not just one thing.

I think we all face situations in life, where we are not sure if we will be able to make it. I have been through such experiences and for me, the real hero is the one who rises above obstacles.

There have been struggles and challenges that I have faced that few know about but I hope will help others going through the same thing.

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.

I like to think of hope as a fact and something that wins out always. Whether you're hopeful or not, actually, you do get through what you're in the middle of. When you're in it, you don't feel like that's possible. But time and time again, we're proven wrong.

One day, our love will conquer this dark circle. That's worth everything to me

People rise out of the ashes because, at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over seemingly impossible odds.

Just keep going - no feeling is final.

For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air.

In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace--and because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.

I want to share some insight into why someone would want to be a SEAL. A lot of us faced obstacles growing up. I didn't have any type of real nurturing as a kid. I hope people will relate to my story and go, 'Hey, if this guy can do it, so can I.'

I think that I am a walking testimony to you can have scars. You can go through turbulent times and still have victory in your life.

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.

Say not the struggle naught availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been, things remain ... For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And no by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light, In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But, westward, look, the land is bright.

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

As you wrestle with life... You're going to come out on the other end healed... I've fallen short sometimes, and I've risen pretty high a few times.

When you crash and burn, you have to pick yourself up and go on and hope to make up for it.