Nafessa Williams Quotes

Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.

I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger.

Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation for growth. Those who have fallen, failed or 'gone down' are the only ones who understand 'up.'

When you face difficult times, know that challenges are not sent to destroy you. They're sent to promote, increase and strengthen you.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

Sometimes the adversities you go through help you become a person you are proud of, and instead of hating what you're going through, maybe bless it because for some reason; it is going to build you into that person that you are proud of being.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

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.

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

I do believe in the old saying, 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

It's good to have a bad season because you learn a lot about yourself; you become stronger, and you see where you have to improve.

It's all the stuff I've been through in my life. From family struggles, people doubting me, things I went through as a child and going to prison, they all played a factor in who I am today. It really made me a better person. Going through those situations can make or break you as a human being.

In our culture, I feel like everyone just wants the good life, the dream life, but I'm learning to embrace suffering because with suffering there's so much good that comes out of it.

I'm very very happy for my hardships and misfortunes: they build character and make you a better person. Even if I think it's something you have to carry with you, it's definitely something that makes you more empathic towards other people, makes you understand people and relationships so much better.

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

I don't think I'm any worse for my bad experiences. Actually, they have made me better.

What don't break you will make you.

Everything don't work out for the best. You have to use a lot of those things as lessons in order to build yourself up.

I've obviously learned a lot, a lot of mental toughness, learned how to deal with some adversity. Hopefully I'm better for it.

We learn to fight and to grow strong by fighting.

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you're being knocked down, 'Why am I being knocked down?' If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.