Ger Duany Quotes

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

In my life I had no other choice than to become a strong person.

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.

A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.

I've always felt in life, you get a lot of things you have to overcome.

I think any type of setback you have, any tough time you've got, getting through it is what makes you who you are. It makes you a tougher person. I think whatever you've been through in your life makes you a tougher person. I'm very grateful for the background I have, every tough situation I've been through because it's made me who I am.

I've had more life experiences than most people that are older than me.

I've been through a lot of different things, experienced a lot of different things.

What's helped me is my childhood, my tough upbringing. I learnt a lot from that; it helps with any problems I might encounter.

I think that everybody in life probably goes through obstacles at different times in life. I wouldn't really call them obstacles, I think that's just called growing up, and I think it's hard to be in the industry at such a young age

I was handed a tough life lesson at a very early age.

Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time? One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult! It’s what enables us to grow. Remember, earth is not heaven!

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

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

Kenya, being a third world country, from a young age your eyes are open to the real world. I'd like to think growing up there taught me to stand on my own two feet, make my own decisions about what I wanted to be.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome.

Life does throw some hard stuff at you as you get older, much harder. But you are more able to deal with things.

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

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 didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.

I consider adversity being good sometimes, you know.

I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood.

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.