Lydia M. Child Quotes

You have to go through the ups and downs to really be able to root yourself and focus on what's important.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.

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

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

I've always said that my greatest crises are my greatest opportunities to prove my own character to myself.

While I don't necessarily believe the cliche that 'everything happens for a reason,' I do believe that every encounter, every situation, and every challenge I've experienced has shaped me into the woman I am today. And I am proud to say that I have never backed down from life's challenges.

I believe that every fight we've had is a big fight, and every fight we've had is a fight where I've learned a lot of things in the ring, I learn about myself, and it's sort of pushed me to know where I can go.

I needed to go through certain life experiences, and not just on the court, to make me into the competitor that I am, and also the person.

I feel like I am a better person because of my struggles, because of my challenges and persevering through them and realizing the mistakes that I've made, correcting them.

I just keep surprising myself, I guess.

I think all human beings can surprise themselves when they are in situations where they are tested. That's when you see your true character coming out, and I was definitely tested.

A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel.

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.