Personal Challenges Quotes

The people at home don't care what your problems are. They just know that you're doing that show and you're supposed to do the best you can do. It's not a 9-5 type of job. I've considered myself very lucky to do that kind of work.

They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in.

Everybody has their demons; everyone has their challenges.

I'm my own worst enemy sometimes when I pick projects.

I have a song I wrote called “Autobiography.” I came from a very intense living situation, with having a parent on drugs and not having a lot of money. So I always want to talk about the real things. But I think 90 percent of my music, I want it to be 'feel-good music'. I'm already recording tracks for my album, but when it comes time to actually say, 'this is the album,' I may be in a completely different space than I'm in right now.

I'm very knowledgeable of the challenges before me.

Nobody cares how tough your upbringing was. Nobody cares if you suffered some discrimination.

I also feel that I have been very honest with my friends, my family and also with the public about the mistakes that I've made and the challenges that I've gone through.

Everyone in life has their challenges, mine have not been financial.

Let people see your struggles and don't ever fake it.

I’ve lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.

There's the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there's the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn't sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.

I’m worse at what I do best.

What I went through in personal life had a big impression on my professional choices.

Everyone has something wrong. And for a while, her heart just sort of flat lined.

I definitely think that since I've become born again, if you understand in the supernatural realm the spiritual warfare that goes on everyday, I've had far greater challenges on a personal level than before I became a Christian.

I go through ups and downs just like everyone does.

I have a specific set of, I have a specific sort of negative energies to deal with that might be specific to me, but it definitely something that all artists have to deal with at one point or another. But I think for me, it's just maybe more specific.

This is my career. I have children to raise. I have to retaliate. Evander Holyfield butted me. Look at me. My kids will be scared of me.

I never thought of getting married again. I'm quite difficult to live with, I think.

If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.

I don't want to be caught ... ashamed of anything. And because generally someone who has bipolar doesn't have just bipolar, they have bipolar, and they have a life and a job and a kid and a hat and parents, so its not your overriding identity, it's just something that you have, but not the only thing - even if it's quite a big thing.

I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.

The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in the New York Marathon. It was then I decided to meet this new challenge head on and not only overcome my disability, but conquer it in such a way that I could never look back and say it disabled me.

Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else's are even tougher.