Jose Maria Aznar Quotes

Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

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

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

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.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

You can't go through the kinds of things I've gone through, as much as I have, without re-evaluating yourself and making adjustments. And you can't endure these horrendous circumstances without developing a certain level of strength and wisdom.

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.

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.

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.

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.

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

It's been said of me that I must get out of bed every morning and go cartwheeling down the road. Of course it's not true. There certainly was a time in my 20s when I wanted a bit of freedom, and I found that difficult, but if I'm ever having a time when I'm feeling sorry for myself, something always jolts me back.

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

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.

I really believe in the old expression that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's through adversity that you find the strength you never knew you had.

My journey through life has led me through both light and dark places, and it's because of those experiences that I have learned how to work through my character defects and to help others do the same.

When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.

I had my share of issues, but now, it's something that's made me who I am and no complaints.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

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.

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