Daniel Gillies Quotes

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

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

What don't break you will make you.

What did not demolish me simply polished me.

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

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

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

I had a calling inside of me. I had a sense that when I was going through experiences like living on the streets, losing my parents to AIDS, just having my whole world turned upside-down, there was this feeling inside of me like I was meant for something greater.

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

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

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

There is no education like adversity.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

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.

You're not fully you until life has booted you in the behind.

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

From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.

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

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.

'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger?' In my case, I suppose it's not just a cliche.

I'm interested in little people. 'The little, great people' is how I would put it, because suffering expands people.

I'm the same person. I got a grenade thrown at me. Situation turned out how it did. Now I'm just trying to do good things.

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.

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