Quotes About Adversity

The bad experiences make you stronger and makes you focus on the next project.

I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

I've gone through many, many things. I tell you something, that if it doesn't kill you, you get stronger.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger.

The Mariel boatlift was probably one of the most strengthening events of the exile community; maybe Nietzschean, in the sense that if it doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger.

Losing both my daughter and my mother was real painful but it's made me stronger. Fighting for their memory is a motivating factor for me.

I've never had a problem with criticism. Whether films or television, I've lived with it and emerged stronger.

If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined.

I show women growing, changing, becoming stronger in many kinds of situations.

You have to fall. You have to understand what that feels like. For what I want in my life, and for where I want to go with this music, you gotta be humiliated, man. You gotta understand what that feels like. It just makes you stronger.

You have to handle the challenges and emerge stronger from them, rather than allow them to bog you down.

There's always going to be someone bigger, faster, stronger than anybody.

Yes, there are things that I can't change, but the things I can, I'm going to do everything in my power to work very hard through them and come out stronger on the other side.

Disabilities and misfortune can make you stronger.

Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

Some fighters lose and their spirits are forever broken. A champion comes back stronger. If you're constantly dwelling on the past, 'I could have done that, I should have done this,' it doesn't help. You have to look at the situation intellectually and learn from it.

I don't think getting punched in the face is too fun. I keep going because this is what I am. Every time I fight, this is why we live. We have to feel this. That's how we become stronger. That's how we become champions.

Cancer has made me mentally and spiritually stronger. But as my life starts to go back to normal, I find that some of my old, bad habits are still lurking in the shadows.

In eighth grade, I pretty much didn't want to pass. I was 6'8'.' I was always bigger and stronger. I was getting triple-teamed, and the results weren't good. I wasn't helping my team. I was forcing shots. Then I started passing it out to my team, and they started hitting shots and slashing, and that's when things opened up for me.

Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.

From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.

Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.