Curtis Joseph 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 a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Sometimes the adversities you go through help you become a person you are proud of, and instead of hating what you're going through, maybe bless it because for some reason; it is going to build you into that person that you are proud of being.

If your life gets off to a rough start, just know this is helping you develop depth of personality and depth of character.

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

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.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

I do believe in the old saying, 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

The hardest things in my life have made me who I am.

It's the trials and tribulations that really test a person, and coming through those difficulties is what shapes a person's character.

Everybody goes through hardships but hardships make you the person you are, and I feel that is important.

You take a look back at some tough parts of your life, just bad things that have happened: they tend to build your character and make you who you are.

Every single experience, every single thing that's happened in my life, struggle, obstacle, trials and tribulations, I think they've all molded me to become the character and the person who I am.

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.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

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

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

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

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.

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

We've all recognized the moment when the world has handed us a situation that is bigger than our youth can handle, and we have to grow up in a second. And when you do get to the other side, all it does is take us to this new level of existence that is more beautiful and more complex and, in some ways, more painful.

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

I went through big things at too young of an age, but, naturally, when you're young you're also adventurous.

I've been through a lot off the field. I think that kind of translates onto the field. Football serves for a lot of life lessons, and so it allows me to stay humble and continue to work.