Will Rogers Quotes

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

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

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

People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.

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

People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

I consider adversity being good sometimes, you know.

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

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.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

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

Struggle teaches you a lot of things, and I am happy that I witnessed a roller coaster ride. The journey has improved me as a person and made me more mature.

Life throws you curveballs and there are things that happen - you don't understand why they happened at the time. But then you step back and understand you're a better fighter and competitor because of the things that happened.

It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be but how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way.

It is written that adversity introduces us to ourselves.

Every single experience, every single thing that's happened in my life, struggle, obstacle, trials and tribulations, I think they've all molded me to become the character and the person who I am.

Conflicts bring experience and experience brings that growth in Grace which is not to be attained by any other means!

It is... very helpful to think of adversity not so much as a threat to our peace of mind but rather as the very means by which patience is attained.

Pressure builds character and allows to handle what else is coming.

The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.

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

There were times when I thought I got a bit more punishment than was coming to me, but I don't regret a minute of it now. Each of us must be tempered in some fire. Nobody had more to do with choosing the fire that tempered me than myself, and instead of finding fault with the fire I give thanks that I had the metal to take the temper and hold it.

We are put in situations to build our character... not destroy us.