James Brown Quotes

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.

A little bit of pain is good for you. I feel alive. Everybody needs struggle. Once you overcome an obstacle, you springboard into the future. Life is interesting and short and it's not supposed to be easy, and if it is, you're probably just in denial and you're existing here like a zombie.

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

When life is hard, you have to change.

Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.

You have to compete in life because if you don't have no competition - no competition, no spirit, you know, you'll fall under the slightest struggle.

None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.

I'll always push myself because that's the journey of life. We do go through things. Some of it's incredibly great and some of it's really bad.

I think we are all the sum of that which has happened in our lives. And if you're successful, it would be wrong to think that you'd be more successful had something been easier. That's not a given.

Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.

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

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.

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.

I think without struggle, you can't grow as a person - I think you need that in your life.

Struggle teaches you a lot of things, and I am happy that I witnessed a roller coaster ride. The journey has improved me as a person and made me more mature.

I've obviously learned a lot, a lot of mental toughness, learned how to deal with some adversity. Hopefully I'm better for it.

No matter what is going on in your life today, remember, it is only preparation. People come and go; situations rise and fall; it's all preparation for better things. You must stretch, reach, grow into your goodness. Without the preparation we receive through adversity, disappointment, confusion, or pain, we could not appreciate the goodness when it arrives.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.

Once I've learned all those things and gotten through the hard times, I come out feeling really powerful.

It's not what you accomplish in life that matters; it's what you overcome.