Ronda Rousey Quotes

You take a look back at some tough parts of your life, just bad things that have happened: they tend to build your character and make you who you are.

An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown

The life must not be easy if it is only rich in contents

All people—all lives—are either in a crisis, coming out of a crisis, or headed for a crisis.

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don't think I would be as happy today if I hadn't been through that. It was tough; I made some bad choices myself.

I consider adversity being good sometimes, you know.

I'm pretty easily overwhelmed and pretty tough as well. I think I'm tougher than I used to be. There's been a lot of hardship along the way. But that's what life is. And it's how you deal with those things, and how you let them shape you that makes you a better person and defines what sort of person you're going to be.

You're not fully you until life has booted you in the behind.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.

I think, in every person's life, you have ups and downs. You learn so much about yourself, sometimes even more, in the down times. Unfortunately, I had to go through it in public, which was not easy.

The hardest things in my life have made me who I am.

Life is not always going to be roses and rainbows. You are going to have uncomfortable moments. It's what we do with those moments that is going to count and determine our destiny.

There's challenges in life that present themselves unexpectedly, and if you rise to them, then those challenges will toughen you up.

Sometimes I think the most difficult moments in life were actually good because they made me strong. I was a child labourer. From this, I learned to stand on my own feet. So I don't want to forget the difficulty of my life.

It is written that adversity introduces us to ourselves.

What did not demolish me simply polished me.

Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.

It is... very helpful to think of adversity not so much as a threat to our peace of mind but rather as the very means by which patience is attained.