"My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams."
- Liza Minnelli
Love
"I consider myself an actress first, a dancer second, and a singer third. Why? Because the dancer needs a reason to move—that’s the actor informing the dancer. So I worked on my acting and gradually developed a singing voice."
- Liza Minnelli
Personal Growth
"Don’t listen to anyone who doesn’t know how to dream."
- Liza Minnelli
Belief in Self
"My father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future."
- Liza Minnelli
Aspirations
"I learned at a very young age how to pick up steps. This gave me a great advantage later on. I could learn choreography very quickly."
- Liza Minnelli
Determination
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity