Janet Varney Quotes

A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.

I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.

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.

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

You don't want people who have never had to deal with adversity - you want people who have been able to deal successfully with adversity. That's what adds to society. Those are going to be the hardest-working, best people.

I think if I had gone to a private school and been coddled a little bit, I wouldn't be as tough as I am now.

Adversity is an effective, thorough and highly personalized teacher.

Going through tough times is a wonderful thing, and everybody should try it. Once.

God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times.

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way.

There is no education like adversity.

When I was a kid, I had to fight for everything.

Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.

I consider adversity being good sometimes, you know.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

I think it's very important to teach your children to struggle on some level.

You learn a lot more when you're going through a rough period compared to the good times when everything goes your way.

I think when you grow up - cement floors, tin roofs, having to amuse yourselves... you know, the importance of work - I think these are benefits that I've had.

You learn from adversity more than anything because it allows you to see so much. It really allows you to see things in a different way.

Having been through some adversity, starting from different points and having to work through the depth chart on many occasions, it's definitely helped my story.

I've been through a lot off the field. I think that kind of translates onto the field. Football serves for a lot of life lessons, and so it allows me to stay humble and continue to work.

What's helped me is my childhood, my tough upbringing. I learnt a lot from that; it helps with any problems I might encounter.

In terms of the way things went for me, I'm a firm believer that experience is what makes you. But I'm not saying it was easy.