Johanna Konta Quotes

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

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

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

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

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.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

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

Adversity teaches a man a lot about himself.

Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test.

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.

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

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.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

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

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

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

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.

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

I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood.

Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.

They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.

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

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.