Patrick Carman Quotes

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.

Sometimes the future that you imagined to be the most dreadful, turns out to be the future that compels you to reach down very deeply into your being to uncover reservoirs of strength and perserverance that you had no idea were there.

You when the storm is raging - how do you face despair? It is you that the world discovers, whatever the clothes you wear.

You never know yourself until the chips are down. True strength is not measured when your at your strongest, but when you’re at your weakest.

Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.

My life is a beautiful struggle.

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

No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

What is hard to remember when you're in the middle of it is that when you get through to the other side, you always walk away with a gift. If you can stand in there and not walk away from it, you get transformed by it.

Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

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

It's the trials and tribulations that really test a person, and coming through those difficulties is what shapes a person's character.

When you are being bullied a long way from home, when you face that challenge, that is where you find out a lot about yourself.

You find strength in your moments of weakness.

We all have challenges. We have to face them, embrace them, defy them, and conquer them.

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.

Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has not gone. It's inside you - if you listen to it, you can play it.

It's in the struggle itself that you define yourself.

Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.

I guess that one of the most important things I've learned is that nothing is ever completely bad. Even cancer. It has made me a better person. It has given me courage and a sense of purpose I never had before. But you don't have to do like I did...wait until you lose a leg or get some awful disease, before you take the time to find out what kind of stuff you're really made of. You can start now. Anybody can.

Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all.

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken