Brian Banks Quotes

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

...the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was not necessarily the edge of the precipice: it could be the bottom of the valley, the beginning of the long climb up the far slope, and when a man had once begun that climb he never looked back to that other side.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.

If your life gets off to a rough start, just know this is helping you develop depth of personality and depth of character.

The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

I really believe I'm no different from anyone else. I just had a few challenges I had to learn from at a very early age.

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's interesting is watching them rise again, and seeing how they've changed and grown, if indeed they have.

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

It's all the stuff I've been through in my life. From family struggles, people doubting me, things I went through as a child and going to prison, they all played a factor in who I am today. It really made me a better person. Going through those situations can make or break you as a human being.

I feel like I am a better person because of my struggles, because of my challenges and persevering through them and realizing the mistakes that I've made, correcting them.

Some of the things I've had to overcome in my past, fighting helped me deal with a lot of struggles. Obstacles in life don't make you a great fighter, but fighting - or, I should say, martial arts - helps you overcome your obstacles.

I'm grateful for situations that have tested me and shaped me.

If you let tragedies stop you along the way, then you're never going to grow as a person.

All the losses that I had, I think they were important, just because it helped me grow as a fighter, helped me grow as a person.

I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean.

I can bounce back from adversity and reinvent my life - it's possible

You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.

Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming.