Peter De Vries Quotes

Everyone's got a boulder in their life of one sort or another that they need to overcome. For most people, it's not a literal one, but there are certainly metaphorical ones.

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World

Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.

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.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

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

Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.

Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

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.

Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.

People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.

I would not call it a difficult life, really. I just had a lot of challenges at a very young age.

I don't want someone else to go through and live through the life that I have had to live through in terms of the challenges that I face.

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.

We all have a cross to carry. I have to carry my own cross. If we don't carry our crosses, we are going to be crushed under the weight of it.

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

The struggle I went through has value.

I think everybody faces challenges in their lives. I've definitely been through it - not to the extreme that Astrid did. I try to keep some kind of identity and strength.

I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don't think I would be as happy today if I hadn't been through that. It was tough; I made some bad choices myself.

I consider adversity being good sometimes, you know.

I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood.