Bryan Clay Quotes

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.

I really believe in the old expression that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's through adversity that you find the strength you never knew you had.

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.

Whenever something's really hard, you always question yourself, and I had many times when I questioned myself, but I always rose above it.

Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.

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

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.

I proved to myself that I can overcome a lot of things that probably would have broken some people.

It is in the failures of our striving that we find ourselves, and it is then, in the rising above them and trying again, that we carry ourselves to the next level. If the runner stumbles, they get up and run again.

That's been the story of my life - obstacles: trying to figure a way over them, around them, under them; sometimes you have to go straight through them.

When you are being bullied a long way from home, when you face that challenge, that is where you find out a lot about yourself.

Sometimes you stumble when you push yourself harder and you're trying to run faster or whatever. We forgive ourselves, pick ourselves up, and keep running. We don't cry and stop running because we skinned our knee.

I dropped out of school; I got fired from my job. Those were my roughest moments, but I always knew through it that I was going to be great.

Everybody suffers through some type of adversity. Does it make you stronger or does it pull you down? And I never will let any of that pull me down or pull me away from what I've set to achieve.

When life hits you hard, it can throw you off course. But how you handle that adversity can teach you so much about yourself and change your perspective on what you actually want from life.

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.

No matter what comes your way, shake it off and move forward. When you have a positive mindset, you can't be defeated.

Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred.

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.

My life has been full of struggles - coming from a troubled home, moving out when I was fifteen, ending up homeless by eighteen. The one thing I always knew was being jaded and bitter was equal to letting life win.