Juan Gabriel Quotes

Obviously, as you grow up, no one's ever 100 percent proud of every decision that they've made, and that's OK. I think as long as you learn from your mistakes and don't make them over and over again, you're on the right path.

It's all the stuff I've been through in my life. From family struggles, people doubting me, things I went through as a child and going to prison, they all played a factor in who I am today. It really made me a better person. Going through those situations can make or break you as a human being.

I'm the same person. I got a grenade thrown at me. Situation turned out how it did. Now I'm just trying to do good things.

I think every opportunity, every disappointment, every rejection, every accolade... everything has contributed in shaping my character and my choices and who I have become.

That experience which does not make us better makes us worse.

The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.

The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional.

My journey through life has led me through both light and dark places, and it's because of those experiences that I have learned how to work through my character defects and to help others do the same.

I believe everything negative that happens in your life is for a positive reason. If your heart breaks, you know that you are a human being and it happens. But you can't mope over it. There's only one life. You better get on ahead and fast. Fast enough not to let your past ever catch up with you.

I have been shaped by my mistakes and disappointments - just as I have been shaped by my successes.

I'm pretty easily overwhelmed and pretty tough as well. I think I'm tougher than I used to be. There's been a lot of hardship along the way. But that's what life is. And it's how you deal with those things, and how you let them shape you that makes you a better person and defines what sort of person you're going to be.

I should only look back at moments that were disparaging, look down upon, negative for me - moments where I could learn something. And if I have been able to use that learning in future, then I am happy about it.

When you lose, you learn a lot about yourself. That experience is important.

I have become a nicer person after every film I have done.

At the end of the day, everything I've been through on and off the court, I'm the only common denominator.

You've got to go through times in your life when you're not going to make the greatest decisions. But the thing is, I always say, you grade a person on what they've become after they've made some mistakes. Because it's so easy to make mistakes when you're young.

I'm grateful for situations that have tested me and shaped me.

We have all made mistakes in this life. How we learn from our mistakes is the measure of who we are.

Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned. Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned. My soul has returned so I call it a lesson learned...another lesson learned

I have no regrets in my life. If not for the mistakes that I made I would not be the man I am today.

Rejection is good for the soul.