Alexander Pope Quotes

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

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

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

Meg, I give you your faults." "My faults!" Meg cried. "Your faults." "But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!" "Yes," Mrs. Whatsit said. "However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz.

No magic formula can completely prepare us for crises in life. However, each choice we make now will impact how we handle those crises in the future. Make your choice count. Dedicate time each day to developing your character. If you do, courage will be there when you need it most.

The problem of life is not to make life easier, but to make men stronger.

I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other virtues I might never have known.

Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome

Be grateful even for hardship, setbacks, and bad people. Dealing with such obstacles is an essential part of training in the Art of Peace.

It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

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

If you learn life's lessons, you will do well. If not, life will just continue to push you around. People do two things. Some just let life push them around. Others get angry and push back. But they push back against their boss, or their job, or their husband or wife. They do not know it's life that's pushing.

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.

Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

You don't overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.

It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.

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.

I don't let things stress me out, and I'm doing my best with all the battles life presents.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.

Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.

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.