Andy Stanley Quotes

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

There have been a lot of challenges over the years that I have overcome.

Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.

I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood.

I think it's always the moments that are the trials that end up making you become a hero in the end. You're not a hero unless you've gone through the trials. And it makes these moments so much sweeter, so much better. I don't believe in 'deserved,' but I might believe in 'earned.'

During the rocky times, it never occurred to me that one day I would hold a position of respect and responsibility in the community.

Everything that has happened to me in my life has defined who I am, and all of the things leading up to being governor, that all came from overcoming challenges in childhood and overcoming challenges as I got older. When you have God, you quickly understand there's nothing you can't overcome.

I honestly think part of the appeal of 'Rumours' was that it was sort of heroic. We managed to push through in the face of so much personal adversity.

You can all get what you want to get, and so my journey was to show you how many times along the way adversity has stared me right in the face, and I've looked it right back and said, 'No.'

I believe I overcame a lot.

Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.

Stand high long enough and your lightning will come.

All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under.

Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.

Your response to opportunities, adversities and calling, determine the type of leader you become.

Your struggles have not been a waste. They've come to strengthen you. And grow your capacity to lead - and win.

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

We learned that a former prisoner of war had more to teach us about what it takes to find a path to greatness than most books on corporate strategy.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness.

Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.

I have always tried to teach my players to be fighters. When I say that, I don't mean put up your dukes and get in a fistfight over something. I'm talking about facing adversity in your life. There is not a person alive who isn't going to have some awfully bad days in their lives. I tell my players that what I mean by fighting is when your house burns down, and your wife runs off with the drummer, and you've lost your job and all the odds are against you. What are you going to do? Most people just lay down and quit. Well, I want my people to fight back.

Challenges met are the scariest but are sometimes the most worthwhile.