Anne Lamott Quotes

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

When life is hard, you have to change.

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

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

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

Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.

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

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

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

I'm pretty easily overwhelmed and pretty tough as well. I think I'm tougher than I used to be. There's been a lot of hardship along the way. But that's what life is. And it's how you deal with those things, and how you let them shape you that makes you a better person and defines what sort of person you're going to be.

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.

You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person.

The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.

People aren't born strong. People grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations, learning not to run from them.

It's so valuable to learn that when you put yourself in an uncomfortable situation, you'll be fine, and you'll probably come out even stronger.

I think life gives you lemons, and the thing that I'm working on doing is not watering it down, not putting sugar in it. Just drink it straight. The more you can take life head on... it's gonna make you a better person, and then you have nothing left to be afraid of. And what an awesome way to live.

You deal with what comes to you. If it's something you don't like, you deal with it the best you can. If it's something that you love, you rise to the occasion.

You face distractions, you face adversity in life and you have to be able to handle it, you have to be able to fight through it and become a better man and become a better player because of it.

I believe everything you experience in life and football can make you better.

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

When I went to Spain, it was a risk because I was really young. But I quickly learned the game, and I grew as a result.

I've obviously learned a lot, a lot of mental toughness, learned how to deal with some adversity. Hopefully I'm better for it.