Lesley Gore Quotes

The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.

I spent so many years not understanding my own gender identity and not having the language for it, and not having those conversations, that now I'm so eager to talk about it. Then I learn more about myself and other people.

Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!

If your life gets off to a rough start, just know this is helping you develop depth of personality and depth of character.

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

You're not fully you until life has booted you in the behind.

They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.

It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique. And that's what I know for sure... I think.

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

The hardest things in my life have made me who I am.

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

Being transgender is more than just medical books and everything, procedures. It's something spiritual in which you're finding yourself and really discovering who you are and learning to love yourself.

Everybody goes through hardships but hardships make you the person you are, and I feel that is important.

You take a look back at some tough parts of your life, just bad things that have happened: they tend to build your character and make you who you are.

Character is never built in a classroom; it is built in the circumstances of life.

It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down.

Every single experience, every single thing that's happened in my life, struggle, obstacle, trials and tribulations, I think they've all molded me to become the character and the person who I am.

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

There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming.

Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself

But I do believe that's when you do your soul-searching. I think when you have these trials that life gives you, it is an opportunity to find out who you are. Not just who you are when everything's great, but who are you when everything is taken away from you and you have nothing.

A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.

Our busy lives force us to focus on things we do from day to day. But the development of character comes only as we focus on who we really are.