Lizzo Quotes

Even the accomplished suffers setbacks sometimes. The more bitter the lessons, the greater the successes will be.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

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.

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship.

It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.

We shall have to pass through many a valley, many a narrow defile. Many will grow tired on the way. Of course they will mostly be those who have no reason to do so.

There is no success without hardship.

There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.

Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

You know, it's just a matter of working through the pitfalls sometimes and working through the challenges that lie ahead.

I don't think you can live as long as I have in rock n' roll and not take a few hard knocks.

To the stars through thorns.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

I think life is very, very, very hard, and I've never had anything come super easy to me, no matter what people may think.

It hasn't always been easy. There's a lot of hard moments. Sometimes you learn from the end of the bench. Sometimes you learn from injuries. Sometimes you learn the most through the hard things. If you can keep a good attitude and keep on working, eventually situations change, and you can put those things to use.

If you put a person in a training gym made out of entire gold, it doesn't guarantee that this person will become a champion. But if you put a person in the basement, then there is a high chance that he will get out of this basement as a champion.

Not everybody gets to play their first year or second year. Some people have to go through adversity.

We struggled for years before we got that record deal. It was tough because we were girls. People were slamming doors in our faces for years.

There's always going to be bumps in the road. There's always going to be this and that, adversity. You just overcome it. It's what I've done all my life.

I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school - you'll be tested; we gotta pass it.