Gladys Knight Quotes

I do believe in the old saying, 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

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

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

I'm pretty easily overwhelmed and pretty tough as well. I think I'm tougher than I used to be. There's been a lot of hardship along the way. But that's what life is. And it's how you deal with those things, and how you let them shape you that makes you a better person and defines what sort of person you're going to be.

To me, you go through things like that and you learn from it. You add it on to your life, to try to make your life better. Instead of dogging people, learn something from it. And keep stepping.

It's good to have a bad season because you learn a lot about yourself; you become stronger, and you see where you have to improve.

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.

With the way my career has gone, I've had ups and downs, and I'm thankful for going through what I've gone through because now I'm a stronger person.

Not to get too maudlin, but I think all mistakes are tests for one's mettle.

You know, that's the thing that people sometimes miss, is the fact that those moments when you're at your relatively speaking, lowest, are the times when you can learn the most.

To build character of purpose and integrity is our high mark, and that cannot be done in a world where there are no adverse elements.

What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

Facing difficulties is inevitable. Learning from them is optional.

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.

This past year has been something else... it's opened my eyes to many things and many people. It's had its ups and downs and ins and outs. And I believe we've all been able to take something from that and grow in our own imparticular ways. We've over come obstacles, and set in motion opportunities that can change our own individual lives.

You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.

Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person.

You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.

Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

Life is all about evolution. What looks like a mistake to others has been a milestone in my life. Even if people have betrayed me, even if my heart was broken, even if people misunderstood or judged me, I have learned from these incidents. We are human and we make mistakes, but learning from them is what makes the difference.

There is no education like adversity.

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.