Andrew Shue Quotes

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

It's good to have a bad season because you learn a lot about yourself; you become stronger, and you see where you have to improve.

When I reflect on the losses I've experienced, I've come to believe that those experiences were transformative, that they shaped who I am.

I could lose and it could be the best fight ever, it still does great things for me.

Disappointment builds character and strength.

Adversity teaches a man a lot about himself.

Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.

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

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

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

I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person.

I haven't always acted or reacted in a way that made me proud, but I didn't make that same mistake twice, and I think that's what I love about adversity is that it always reminds me of what's really valuable in life.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.

I'm still me even after all that's happened.

I have been shaped by my mistakes and disappointments - just as I have been shaped by my successes.

'Showgirls' was a critical point in my life. I had my head handed to me. At 21 years old, I had to find my self-esteem again. It was a very hard time.

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.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

But at the end of the day, every star, every person that been iconic, has gone through a time in their lives where it was just bad. Everybody. It just made them better.

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