Jean-Claude Van Damme Quotes

I'll always push myself because that's the journey of life. We do go through things. Some of it's incredibly great and some of it's really bad.

Sometimes you have to suffer a little bit in your youth to motivate yourself to succeed in later life. If Bill Gates had got laid in high school, do you think there'd be a Microsoft?

I think we are all the sum of that which has happened in our lives. And if you're successful, it would be wrong to think that you'd be more successful had something been easier. That's not a given.

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

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.

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

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

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

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.

I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.

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.

When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.

I'm glad I've had to struggle. It's made me the artist I am now.

During the rocky times, it never occurred to me that one day I would hold a position of respect and responsibility in the community.

I think life is very, very, very hard, and I've never had anything come super easy to me, no matter what people may think.

The ups and downs are part of what has made you.

I believe I overcame a lot.

I tremendously enjoyed my journey in professional wrestling, and I wouldn't want to trade a time or a place, even the low times, because it was those things that kind of tempered me and forged me and pushed me ahead to be here now.

You have to go through the lows to go through the highs as well. It's something that's made me into a man.

It doesn't matter how you travel it, it's the same road. It doesn't get any easier when you get bigger, it gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it.

Life itself is always a trial. In training, you must test and polish yourself in order to face the great challenges of life.

Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?

Failure was a key element to my life’s journey.

There have been many things in my life that have tried to break me, going back to when I was two and three years old. It never stops - life will always push you to your limit. The only way I've managed to survive it all is believing in myself and knowing, somehow, beyond everything telling me otherwise, that I will succeed.