Tom Freston Quotes

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

I remember, in middle school, I went to four different schools. That was a rough patch. But it's also what shaped me as a person.

I've been lucky enough - well, maybe unlucky enough - to have had a lot of friends who have had their ups and downs. And for an actor, that's good. Life experience in any regard is good. So I've seen a lot and I've had my own experiences.

As my father would have said, I went through the college of hard knocks.

People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

I wouldn't change anything about my past, because it's made me who I am today. You have to remember: You need to crack some eggs to make omelettes. And I did crack some eggs.

I think in some ways you learn more from the things you don't like than the things you do.

Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don't.

Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.

Everyone should get sacked at least once. It forces you to look at yourself... It is important to have setbacks, because that is the reality of life. Perfection doesn't exist.

I should only look back at moments that were disparaging, look down upon, negative for me - moments where I could learn something. And if I have been able to use that learning in future, then I am happy about it.

Sometimes, it is good to lose - you learn.

I went through a lot, but as I went through it, I learned from the situations.

Life is all about how things rough up against you and how you see them and the vantage point you have from them.

When life hits you hard, it can throw you off course. But how you handle that adversity can teach you so much about yourself and change your perspective on what you actually want from life.

I've learned from life experiences. If you go through certain things, you're able to pull from them.

You don't understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.

The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth

Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.

I have lived difficult moments, but it's in times like those that you learn the most.

We learn by misfortune.

You're always going to have a Dez Bryant somewhere in the league, somebody who has to go through some off-the-field problems in order to reach his potential.

It's only through aging and going through heartbreak and loss and successes and failures that you can look back and look at the mistakes some young people make.