John Corse Quotes

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Injuries make you stronger.

There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us shudder; but if they happen to fall on us, we find ourselves stronger than we imagined, we grapple with our ill luck, and behave better than we expected we should.

Courage would be impossible in a world without pain.

As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

I was bullied and picked on because I was so different to everyone else, and I definitely didn't believe or even know I was fabulous back then. But those hard times made me everything I am today. It's all water under the bridge now, but being bullied and going through adversity definitely made me stronger.

We've had drive-by shootings. I've been spat on, slapped, shot at. One guy tried to stab me with a broken beer bottle. But the way we look at it, if people do the worst they can, we'll still wake up in glory.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I really believe that.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

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

I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

I got scars on my face that tell some kind of story. I'm looking in the mirror, and I got one scar that's really two scars - half from a baseball bat and half from playing football in college. I'll tell you, though, after a while, your face gets so wrinkled up you can hardly see them.

Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'

If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.

When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

Yes, I did shatter my leg, and it really changed my life, in a way. It wasn't much fun, but it did open me up, and as we all know intuitively, adversity can develop resources.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

The darkest experiences in a human being's life allow that person to either go deeper and stay depressed or get the strength to stand up stronger than ever, and that's my case.

Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.