Angelica Ross Quotes

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.

I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.

I had played on the police athletic league, but my father had a unique thing, he always said, 'Before you start going to basketball camp and doing all the things, you should learn about yourself first before somebody else starts telling you how to play.'

Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

I had my share of issues, but now, it's something that's made me who I am and no complaints.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

I'm open. All of my situations have made me who I am.

I've always said that my greatest crises are my greatest opportunities to prove my own character to myself.

You are the best lessons you learn from life. I have grown up learning from my life.

Through life's ups and downs, and the few mistakes we make and all the successes that we get, let nobody - nobody's opinion - define who you are. And if anybody defines who you are, let it be yourself.

When I was at the Miss India competition, I was just trying to learn. It was all very new for me, and I was wondering where do I fit in. But it is about enjoying the whole journey.

I believe when people can find out who they are, then you can be equipped to handle life's situations.

It's one of those things that I use everything that I go through... to be better. I use it all to just fuel the fire, to grow and learn from.

I'm proud of myself, and I'm going to continue to grow.