Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes

I want people to use my story to stand up, be strong-willed and persevere.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

I learned that sometimes our struggles are a little bit bigger than us and talking about them and coming through and having the courage to get out of them. I learned how many I touched and inspired through the journey of 'Idol' because I was just singing on the show. I wasn't really being an advocate for anything.

For once in your life, here's your miracle, stand up and fight.

I must thank my good friend Nigel Brennan. His strength of character in the midst of extreme hardship inspired me during the darkest days. Despite our separation, he always managed to find small ways to remind me that there are gentlemen in the world, even when I was surrounded by just the opposite.

That's why I wrote 'Fighter'. I have that need in me to help people. I am all about the underdog.

If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life.

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

Giving is most important to show the less fortunate that you don't give up. You always want to live a better life.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

The theme of my life is overcoming. It is my personal mantra and what I help other people do.

I turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.

I get a lot from people who are in oppressed situations and say they were gonna give up. A lot of people have reached out and said they were in bad situations and really need me to be successful.

Be strong, my young friends; that is my advice to you.

The most powerful weapon is hope.

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

I had a teacher in college who drastically changed the course of my life by telling me that he believed in me as an actor. I never received that support before, and it inspired to me to such a degree that I never looked back. He taught me that it's okay to be crappy; it's okay to fight; it's okay to go to any length.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Whatever you're going through in your life, don't ever give up.

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.

I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.

With whatever talent and resources I have, I'm trying to bring light to penetrate the darkness many people feel.