Quotes About Adversity

Me and my step-dad shared a $500 Chevy Celebrity, a 1983 Dodge Ram truck, and an old Ford Ranger truck - it was a piece of junk. I hated that thing. It fell apart. It didn't always go in reverse. So I drove in a circle or I would just get somebody to sit in the thing and I would push it backward.

I pull out on the highway, and a truck hit my driver's door going 70 miles an hour. Took off my right leg from the knee down; broke 20 something bones.

When I was 5, 6 - so you know, memories aren't that great - I remember coming home and I remember seeing all of our belongings on the street and a Salvation Army truck picking them up. We got taken to a shelter. And then we moved around a lot, finding places to stay.

I actually quit the business. I went and drove a truck for a year and a half.

I was living in my truck, bouncing in bars - a 20-year-old kid trying to break up all these red neck fights. But hey, I did what I had to do to survive.

I was working for Ajay Devgn and Kajol's home production film 'Dil Kya Kare' with Prakash Jha. During that, in Bengaluru, while on my way to the studio, I had a massive accident where a truck hit my car, and the glass of my car went into my face mostly. I thought I was dying, and at that point, no one even helped me get to the hospital.

A guy like Tyron Woodley, he hits like a truck. I know personally.

I'd got hit by a mail truck. Broke my leg in two places. Had a cast on for about six months. I was in the first grade. Second half of first grade.

A drunk truck driver ran over me. I was in a Volkswagen. It was horrible. It sounds like a cliche, but anything that doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I give a lot of credit to my dad, who was a very strong guy.

I grew up homeless, you know, lived in and out of U-Haul trucks and, you know, apartment houses, friends.

In tough times, that's when you see true colours and personality.

People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.'

Tough times not only make you stronger, but you grow from those experiences. The same is true with fighting. You have to lean into it.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

I guess when you are left on your own, you find your true potential. I remember my father never came to our school even once.

The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.

If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

I always try to make sure that the workspace that I'm in - the NBA, there's highs and lows - but I always make sure that I never let the highs and lows truly determine my true happiness as a person.

Though 'Shahid' was the only true story, what happened in 'Trapped' can happen to anyone. And I am sure there are people like Newton, and there are boys who are naive, sweet, and rowdy, like my part in 'Bareilly'... The humanness is something I loved.

Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that situation to make him angry.

I truly believe that it's all of the hard times that make you step up to the next level, and that's what makes you a champion.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing those parts of ourselves that we can truly grow, and I think that's true of all of the characters I've played, certainly in the past few years.