Jack Black Quotes

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

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

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

The important thing is to firmly fix our gaze on our own weaknesses, not run away from them, but to battle them head-on and establish a solid self that nothing can sway. Hardships forge and polish our lives, so that eventually they shine with brilliant fortune and benefit. If left in its raw, unpolished form, even the most magnificent gem will not sparkle. The same applies to our lives.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Adversity teaches a man a lot about himself.

There's challenges in life that present themselves unexpectedly, and if you rise to them, then those challenges will toughen you up.

It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be but how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way.

It is written that adversity introduces us to ourselves.

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.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

Every time I've built character, I've regretted it.

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

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.

Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

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

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

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.