Tim Allen Quotes

I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.

You find strength in your moments of weakness.

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

I'd resolved to cut my hair for 'Les Mis' and to do it on-screen to make it feel real. And then the morning came, and I was shaking like a leaf. I almost couldn't do my job. When it was over, I went to the darkest corner of my trailer and I looked in the mirror, and I saw my little brother! But eventually I felt like the coolest girl in the world.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

Everyone hits bottom their own way.

I want to know why this is such a part of me. I want to know why this thing that happened to other people has happened so much to me. I keep looking for the lesson.

Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

The most valuable thing I can share is the importance of living in truth. Sometimes, facing those truths can actually be your worst fear.

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.

It's that beautiful thing to love your weaknesses, your insecurities, and then put them all on blast. That's why I started writing, and that's why it was so hard to do it in public.

I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.

I'm not a fighter, but in my mind I'm fighting every day. 'What's new? What am I doing?' I'm fighting myself. My soul is samurai. My roots aren't samurai, but my soul is.

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

When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.