Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes

You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.

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.

She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.

We can all be weak, but we all have to make a conscious decision to be strong.

Basically, what you find out is the limits of your patience and your strength and your capacity to adapt. You find that out in travel and being alone and being tested. So that's a great thing.

It is not just a person's physical constitution, their intellegence, their education, or even their social conditioning that enables them to withstand hardship. Much more significant is their inner development. And while some may be able to survive through sheer willpower, the ones who suffer the least are those who have a high degree of patience and courage in the face of adversity.

The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things.

In the end what you don't surrender, well, the world just strips away.

Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.

Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.

'That which does not kill me makes me stronger' is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is a resolution.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

I really believe in the old expression that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's through adversity that you find the strength you never knew you had.

Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

We're stronger than we realize.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.

Defeating fear is not a light switch. For most of us, it's daily work.

I think I'm blessed with a pretty tough psyche.