M. Scott Peck Quotes

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

For me, I try to see difficulties as a way of expanding and growing as a person inhabiting this planet.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

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

At the end of the day, everything I've been through on and off the court, I'm the only common denominator.

Hargrave made me mature. It made me grow up, and I needed that.

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.

I think every opportunity, every disappointment, every rejection, every accolade... everything has contributed in shaping my character and my choices and who I have become.

We have all made mistakes in this life. How we learn from our mistakes is the measure of who we are.

A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.

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

God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times.

I am a quiet man who grows through adversity.

I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.

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.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

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.

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

In retrospect, I'm grateful for the break-up of my marriage because it forced me to deal with all the buried issues I probably wouldn't have otherwise faced. I'm a better, kinder, happier person today because of the spiritual and emotional growth I've experienced.

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

I have been shaped by my mistakes and disappointments - just as I have been shaped by my successes.

I feel like I've lived a life of making mistakes and learning from them and doing my best to only make each mistake once.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?