Ted Knight Quotes

The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period.

The message I'm trying to say is that I'm tough because of life experience.

A true champion is not judged by how much he or she is admired, but by how well they can stand at the face of adversity.

People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.

Whoever lives sincerely and encounters much trouble and disappointment without being bowed down is worth more than one who has always sailed before the wind and has only known prosperity.

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

The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

You have to be very strong and tough-minded if you want to survive.

It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip.

Strength and struggle travel together.

It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is trouble, and it always comes with years, and the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through the tears.

Character is the virtue of hard times.

The greatest measure of a human being isn't how he handles himself when things are going well, but how he handles himself when things are going badly, when defeat comes.

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

It is only the strong who are strengthened by suffering; the weak are made weaker.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Adversity is the refiner's fire that bends iron but tempers steel.

The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.

Do you think a champion is made out of thin air? It’s through the hardships you endure that you’ll gain real strength.

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.