Max Cleland Quotes

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

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

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

The hardest things in my life have made me who I am.

It's the trials and tribulations that really test a person, and coming through those difficulties is what shapes a person's character.

You learn from adversity more than anything because it allows you to see so much. It really allows you to see things in a different way.

Adversity teaches a man a lot about himself.

When stuff happens to you, it just makes you tougher, man.

It is written that adversity introduces us to ourselves.

Adversity is an opportunity for self-discovery.

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

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times.

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

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

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.

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

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

There is no education like adversity.

The struggle I went through has value.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.