Rose Namajunas Quotes

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

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

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.

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

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

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

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

When I first started playing team sports, I was a little too sweet for my own good. I'd be in tears because I wasn't doing well. But the healthy competition really toughened me up.

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

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've always said that my greatest crises are my greatest opportunities to prove my own character to myself.

Sometimes in the difficult moments in you life you learn more, you grow up more.

I have lived difficult moments, but it's in times like those that you learn the most.

I've dealt with a lot of adversity and came out a stronger person.

One emerges as a better person after going through the wringer.

There's challenges in life that present themselves unexpectedly, and if you rise to them, then those challenges will toughen you up.

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.

Life throws you curveballs and there are things that happen - you don't understand why they happened at the time. But then you step back and understand you're a better fighter and competitor because of the things that happened.

I've had some ups and downs in my personal life, but I have overcame them.

the spiritual meaning of every situation [is] not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us and who we decide to become because of what happens to us. The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.

Everything that has ever happened to us is there to make us stronger.

Why do we dread adversity when we know that facing it is the only way to become stronger, smarter, better?

Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

I think without struggle, you can't grow as a person - I think you need that in your life.

I needed to go through certain life experiences, and not just on the court, to make me into the competitor that I am, and also the person.