Sandra Bullock Quotes

I've had to push myself and I've really matured.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

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.

Every experience makes you a man.

I believe all positive things and negative things are valuable because they shape you.

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

The advice I would've given my younger self is, 'Be patient; just hold on.'

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.

Struggle teaches you a lot of things, and I am happy that I witnessed a roller coaster ride. The journey has improved me as a person and made me more mature.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

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

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

Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

The mistake we have made in our lives is that over and over again we've run into the needful moment and then failed to learn its higher lesson. We don't like needful moments and therefore we resist them.

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

I've developed a self-discipline since the time I was a child.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

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.

There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one.

I'm not as snarky as I used to be.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.