Wilma Mankiller Quotes

Growth is often a painful process.

We rarely grow when we're happy, we grow when we hurt.

One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important.

Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.

Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.

I don't know if I've had my share of drama, but I've definitely had my share of hard times.

Everyone's got a boulder in their life of one sort or another that they need to overcome. For most people, it's not a literal one, but there are certainly metaphorical ones.

I think it does everybody a lot of good to have a period of no success.

Growing up was very difficult.

It is tough: sometimes the pain that you feel makes you grow.

We learn so much from difficulties.

We're all brought up in a world that isn't the best place for us to be in once in a while. There are so many problems and we try to overcome them all.

The goal of evolution is self - conquest

I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.

I've had so many insecurities, and am still getting over a lot.

I was never no, never no, never enough, But I can try, I can try to toughen up.

Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication?

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

Week-by-week you grow with your character and it's an interesting challenge.

Adversity in life teaches you.

Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.

Where do you put a form? It will move all around, bellow out and shrink, and sometimes it winds up where it was in the first place. But at the end it feels different, and it had to make the voyage. I am a moralist and cannot accept what has not been paid for, or a form that has not been lived through.

Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.

I just know that right now, we want to be proud. For once. We want to take the struggle and rise above it. We want to frame it, live it, survive it. We want to put it in our mouths and taste it and never forget it, because it makes us strong.