Brian Tracy Quotes

I always believe that the experiences that you go through are what make you stronger and what help you push forward through life.

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

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

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

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities

It takes facing obstacles to grow strong enough to overcome them.

One emerges as a better person after going through the wringer.

We learn to fight and to grow strong by fighting.

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.

Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself

The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character. Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything.

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

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.

Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

I really want to keep at it until I find out what I'm capable of.

Sometimes the adversities you go through help you become a person you are proud of, and instead of hating what you're going through, maybe bless it because for some reason; it is going to build you into that person that you are proud of being.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.

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

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.