Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes

If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time or great personal growth ahead.

Everyone is going to face challenges. What defines you is how you overcome those.

In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser and happier as a result.

It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be but how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way.

You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

Obstacles are found everywhere, and in overcoming them we nourish ourselves.

The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.'

Your current situations or problems have been sent to you to teach you valuable lessons for success and happiness. What are they?

Assume that whatever situation you are facing at the moment is exactly the right situation you need to ultimately be successful. This situation has been sent to help you become better, to help you expand and grow.

By facing our challenges and overcoming them, we grow stronger, wiser, and more compassionate.

You don't get character because you're successful; you build character because of the hardships you face.

Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better.

I like challenges and I don't believe in failure. I don't believe in regrets. I believe suffering, failure - all those concepts - are things that are absolutely necessary to make us the best people that we can be, the best at whatever we want to do.

None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

The things we overcome in life really become our strengths.

None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.

When you face difficult times, know that challenges are not sent to destroy you. They're sent to promote, increase and strengthen you.

The trials and pressures of life--and how we face them--often define us. Confronted by adversity, many people give up while others rise up. How do those who succeed do it? They persevere. They find the benefit to them personally that comes from any trial. And they recognize that the best thing about adversity is coming out on the other side of it. There is a sweetness to overcoming your troubles and finding something good in the process, however small it may be. Giving up when adversity threatens can make a person bitter. Persevering through adversity makes one better.

To be emotionally resilient and to overcome your circumstances, not through fighting, but through being courageous and having endurance was something I thought was of primary importance.

I love hearing stories about, you know, people who are overcoming challenges in their life. And when you experience hardships, you can either fold or rally, and just by a paradigm shift in your belief system.

Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.

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

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