Rick Bass Quotes

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

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

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

I haven't always acted or reacted in a way that made me proud, but I didn't make that same mistake twice, and I think that's what I love about adversity is that it always reminds me of what's really valuable in life.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

The world helps you to keep evolving and hope it's for better. You have to rise above all the tragedies in life. You have to grow, and if you stop growing, you are old.

It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time.

It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique. And that's what I know for sure... I think.

It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.

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

As you get older, you know what you're good at and you know what you're not so good at. Your ego comes out of it, and then you realise you can't play every game, there'll be certain games where you won't be so affected... so you've just got to concentrate on what you are.

You grow from all those things you go through.

I find that comforting and an equally purposeful way to think, that there's lots of ways to flex both your strengths and your weaknesses.

I'm very very happy for my hardships and misfortunes: they build character and make you a better person. Even if I think it's something you have to carry with you, it's definitely something that makes you more empathic towards other people, makes you understand people and relationships so much better.

I had some definite weaknesses my rookie year that I had to work on and hopefully I've gotten better at those.

I think without struggle, you can't grow as a person - I think you need that in your life.

I've had to push myself and I've really matured.

Baseball is a game based on adversity. It's a game that's going to test you repeatedly. It's going to find your weaknesses and vulnerabilities and force you to adjust. That adversity, in the big picture, is a really good thing because it shows you where your weaknesses are. It gives you the opportunity to improve.

I'm grateful for situations that have tested me and shaped me.

Being in the public eye, going through so much in life personal and my work, all of that put together it's either it will destroy you or make you a better person.

I know what my strengths are, and I have worked really hard on my weaknesses as well.