Henry Rollins Quotes

God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times.

When you go through really hard times, you really figure out who you are, how you respond to things, and how things affect you.

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World

You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.

I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

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

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.

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

But at the end of the day, every star, every person that been iconic, has gone through a time in their lives where it was just bad. Everybody. It just made them better.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

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

Adversity is an opportunity for growth. And an opportunity to really know who your friends are.

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

It's the trials and tribulations that really test a person, and coming through those difficulties is what shapes a person's character.

You learn from adversity more than anything because it allows you to see so much. It really allows you to see things in a different way.

One emerges as a better person after going through the wringer.

Adversity teaches a man a lot about himself.

Hardships can harden even the best person.

Character is never built in a classroom; it is built in the circumstances of life.

No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.