Norman Mailer Quotes

You learn from adversity more than anything because it allows you to see so much. It really allows you to see things in a different way.

Adversity teaches a man a lot about himself.

Going through tough times is a wonderful thing, and everybody should try it. Once.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times.

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

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

There is no education like adversity.

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.

But at the end of the day, every star, every person that been iconic, has gone through a time in their lives where it was just bad. Everybody. It just made them better.

Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.

I've seen a lot in my life. I've seen a lot of winning. I've seen a lot of testing times. I think when you're tested, you really find out what you're made of, OK?

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.

Sometimes in the difficult moments in you life you learn more, you grow up more.

The ups and downs are part of what has made you.

It was rough growing up but it was best for me, it's what made Shannon Briggs, it's who I am.

One emerges as a better person after going through the wringer.

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

Pretty much everything I carry with me, I learned I needed the hard way. I sweated, dry-lipped, dry-mouthed, soaked-to-the-skinned my way through all of these lessons.

I tremendously enjoyed my journey in professional wrestling, and I wouldn't want to trade a time or a place, even the low times, because it was those things that kind of tempered me and forged me and pushed me ahead to be here now.

When you face any adversity in life those are the kind of lessons you can take and remember. Those are the things that are going to help me not just in football but in life, which is priceless.

In terms of the way things went for me, I'm a firm believer that experience is what makes you. But I'm not saying it was easy.

You have to go through the lows to go through the highs as well. It's something that's made me into a man.