Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

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

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

Having challenges in your life open doors for you.

Adversity is simply part of earth life. From it we can grow and progress if we choose to. Yes, some trials come because of our own disobedience, but many trials are simply part of life.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.

Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.

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.

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.

I wouldn't trade a thing. Even the troubles that I had. I have become the husband and mate to my wife that I have because of what I went through, including the bad times. I wouldn't trade that.

The hardest things in my life have made me who I am.

I love heroes that really go through ordeals, and they come out the other end completely changed.

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them.

There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming.

Adversity is an opportunity for self-discovery.

It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them.

Circumstances don't make a person; they reveal him or her.

I've learned that many of the worst things lead to the best things, that no great thing is achieved without a couple of bad, bad things on the way to them, and that the bad things that happen to you bring, in some cases, the good things.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

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.