Olly Murs Quotes

My job, my whole life, I've always had that kind of doubter, people have always doubted me. And I don't know how I would succeed without it. So I welcome it, and it gives me a challenge, and I will see if I can live up to my challenge.

I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.

When people talk trash about me and doubt me, I just use it as motivation.

People have talked down to me, and that fuels my fire.

There's a lot of people that hate on me, but I'm really willing to prove 'em wrong.

I was told I wasn't good enough, but I just chose not to listen.

All the people who knock me down, only inspire me to do better.

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

Not coming from a film background, be it a teeny-weeny role or a big role, I have done it with a lot of dignity and fought my way through. But the only thing that kept me going is that I am the sort of person who doesn't take no for an answer. If someone rejects me, I will be out to prove that person wrong in my own way.

You can make your own way. It's about getting out there and not letting rejection get you down.

When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'

When people push back on you and don't think you can do it, and you struggle a little bit and wonder if they're right, it drives you to be successful and to be a great player.

I've never let myself give up, because I believe in myself. I want to get stronger than I have ever been, and I will continue to tell myself that I can do it, no matter what the odds.

I had people telling me how much I sucked and how bad my music was, but I didn't allow that to discourage me to the point where I didn't want to do music anymore.

Every little bit of hate just gees me on to do better and prove them all wrong.

I like being the underdog. I like turning around and shutting people up when they tell me I can't.

I got joked on. You had people saying I was stupid, that I was lame, that I was feminine, this and that. I was like, 'OK, but I'm still gonna be successful, and you're not.'

I've experienced industry politics and... people telling me I'm never going to make it. I'll never listen. I'm doing me.

The more people that write me off, the stronger I get.

I don't take any notice of negative stuff said on social media. If anything it spurs me on more.

I never listened to people who said I wasn't going to make it.

If I played a bad game, there's gonna be people out there that want to try to bring me down. But I always stay up.

I want everybody to know that I don't care who you are, where you're from, if you're popular or not: we all have haters. But you have to be resilient. You have to not allow them to have the power over you, where you start believing the things they say.

I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.

One girl came up to me - I remember it so vividly - she said, "You're not fit to model socks." It crushed me. But at the same time, it made me unbelievably determined to prove everybody wrong and prove to myself that I could live an incredible life.