Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

I'm happy 'bout life. Still trying. I ain't giving up on life.

Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

There were so many points where I was like, 'I can't do this.' It was too exhausting. It's just a lot, and then suddenly something happens, and your career changes, and it's so much fun and wonderful. I look back on those moments, and I'm so glad I didn't give up.

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

Antwone's story was a story of hope and that's what appealed to me. I needed hope myself at that time. I think all actors give up at some time and think they're never going to make it.

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

My songs are always about overcoming things, whether it's breaking up with a guy or just trying to be happy. They're always about being better.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

I'm so grateful for where I am now, but I think I'm more grateful because it's been so hard-won; I haven't given up, and I've had plenty of reasons to give up.

Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!

It's just been a lot of hard work and lot of auditions. A lot of ups and downs, but a lot of ups, and I'm really happy for my downs, too. I'm really thankful.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

I always find power in struggles. You end up a lot happier that way.

We have all lost before and we will win again.

I always believed in myself, and even in the bad times, when I'd do bits of greatness here and there, it was those kinds of things that kept me alive and helped me to get to where I am now.

People overcoming the odds is actually a really important part of humanity, and I don't think we kind of get to celebrate that as much as we should.

You learn over years of expeditions that having faith, and putting one foot in front of the other, you do end up pulling off climbs that seem completely impossible. There's a certain beauty to that. It has an allure.

When I'm struggling, I can still dream about my successes.

You have setbacks in your life, and adversity. You can be discouraged about it or have courage to get through it and be better.

No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.