Selena Quotes

I've always been the person to look at any turmoil as temporary. I recall times where my mom was working five and six jobs, and there's still no food in the house.

In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do-by the skin of our teeth.

I'm used to really struggling and facing a hard time to get things going, until I'm comfortable at all with them.

You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Never give up: There are certain times that you think, 'OK, you have beaten me down to my knees. And now the challenge is, I am on my knees and you keep on beating me down. And the question is, are you going to keep beating me all the way to the ground or will I find a way to struggle my way back on to my feet.'

it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.

I've seen my family work so hard and come up, and I've seen it all get taken away. I had to man up, and part of that was sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month, and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25 - $35 hotels. I just never panicked. I stayed focused and I never surrendered.

Hope is the poor man's bread.

Inside I'm treading waters steady tryna swim ashore.

Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.

I think that everybody does hustle in order to survive. That doesn't mean lying - it's more about how you handle situations.

Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we're going to get out of it.

Our troubles keep us going.

No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we can achieve.

I've struggled in my life. I've had hard times, but I kept pressing on.

I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world.

In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either.

I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.

My family endured a big crisis after my father's business went bankrupt and we went from having a comfortable life to having virtually nothing. I saw from that moment how fragile and precarious life can be and you have to work very hard not just to survive but also to accomplish something in life and fulfill your dreams.

You have to fight for what you need to fight for.

What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?

Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.