Cicely Tyson Quotes

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.

You can't really know what you are made of until you are tested.

It is difficulties that show what men are.

Problems, obstacles, and challenges can either become the markers of our limits and limitations, or they can become the springboard into a whole new world.

You're always trying to look for material that is as challenging as possible, so that's why I like stuff where the characters go through the most difficult times they've ever had in their life. It makes me push myself further and learn more about myself.

Travel is about failure or overcoming obstacles, overcoming failures. When a traveler is having lots of good luck, that is not a happy book. That's a book you say, well, I don't need that. I want a life lesson. I want to find out - I want a journey that reflects my life.

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

Every challenge takes you a little deeper and awakens you again and again. Without the challenges, you probably would go to back to sleep. The challenges keep you awake.

We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths.

Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.

There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired.

To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.

In breaking away from the familiar and the expected, you'll be forced and privileged to face greater challenges, learn harder lessons, and really get to know yourself.

Every change is a challenge to become who we really are.

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.

We are always faced with different challenges, and circumstances necessitate bringing out the greatness God puts in all of us.

Why does life keep teaching me lessons I have no desire to learn?

I think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Everyone has disappointments all the time, some of them pretty small, some of them pretty big.

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

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

Everything that happens helps you grow, even if its hard to see right now.

Each new epoch in life seems an encounter. There is a tussle and a cloud of dust, and we come out of it triumphant or crest-fallen, according as we have borne ourselves.

In the prosperous times, you put it in your pocket; in the lean times, you put it in your heart and that's when you discover who you are.

It was hard. I came to grips with a lot of difficulties that I've overcome. Each challenge kind of makes you who you are. It wasn't always a good thing. I have my own struggles in my life because of the things I was forced to overcome.