Morihei Ueshiba Quotes

The trials and pressures of life--and how we face them--often define us. Confronted by adversity, many people give up while others rise up. How do those who succeed do it? They persevere. They find the benefit to them personally that comes from any trial. And they recognize that the best thing about adversity is coming out on the other side of it. There is a sweetness to overcoming your troubles and finding something good in the process, however small it may be. Giving up when adversity threatens can make a person bitter. Persevering through adversity makes one better.

It’s not the struggles that define you; it’s how you overcome them.

You have to handle the challenges and emerge stronger from them, rather than allow them to bog you down.

Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.

It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.

You have to go through tough experiences and go through some battles, in order to be stronger.

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up. I made a pledge to myself that I would get up and emerge from this debacle better for having gone through it. I would live up to the expectation I had for myself. I would be the kind of man I wanted to be.

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

I try to view the challenges in my life not as annoyances, but as confirmations of fortitude.

As a player and a coach, I've had plenty of great moments, but I've also experienced disappointments. The disappointments are not about self-doubt, but rather about change. I've always seen failures as a personal challenge. I say to myself: Now I have to find out if I have the right stuff.

There have been many things in my life that have tried to break me, going back to when I was two and three years old. It never stops - life will always push you to your limit. The only way I've managed to survive it all is believing in myself and knowing, somehow, beyond everything telling me otherwise, that I will succeed.

The things we overcome in life really become our strengths.

Everyone is going to face challenges. What defines you is how you overcome those.

None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.

Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

I'll always push myself because that's the journey of life. We do go through things. Some of it's incredibly great and some of it's really bad.

Every day has its own challenges, and every day those challenges make us stronger.

You don't always get stronger on the days that everything comes easily to you.

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.

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

I have to pick myself up every day and say, 'The show must go on,' meaning life as I know it must go on, whatever the obstacle is, I know I can handle it, and I can get through it.

My comfort wasn't the most important thing - my getting through to the other side of difficult feelings was. However long it might seem to take, and however unfair it might seem, it was my job to do it.

I'm being tested each and every day. That's how life is.