John C. Maxwell Quotes

In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we're made of.

Adversity always presents opportunities for introspection.

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

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

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

It's the trials and tribulations that really test a person, and coming through those difficulties is what shapes a person's character.

Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.

And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

But...as bad as it was, I learned something about myself. That I could go through something like that and survive. I mean, I know it could have been worse--a lot worse-- but for me, it was all I could have handled at the time. And I learned from it.

Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.

I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.

That which does not destroy, strengthens.

You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.

Life is full of challenges. How you handle these challenges is what builds character. Never be afraid to be who you are.

Everyone is going to face challenges. What defines you is how you overcome those.

You don't always get stronger on the days that everything comes easily to you.

You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

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.

Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.