Bill Goldberg Quotes

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.

If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.

Many things have been said about what happened, but I don't know either. Maybe someday. One thing I'm sure of is that all the things that have happened to me, good and bad, happy and sad, have made me what I am today.

I'd like to think I've overcome. I was not a person that was supposed to survive New York City, that was ever going to write my own songs or have children.

Often the deep valleys of our PRESENT will be UNDERSTOOD only by LOOKING BACK on them from the mountains of our FUTURE experience. Often we can’t see the LORD’S HAND in our lives until long after the trials have passed. Often the most difficult times of our lives are ESSENTIAL building blocks that form the FOUNDATION of our CHARACTER and pave the way to FUTURE opportunity, understanding, and happiness.

To me, obstacles in life build character. You have to be able to overcome adversity in order to succeed and appreciate the simple things life has to offer... that's where most of my inspiration for writing and singing comes from.

I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. Everything is like stepping stones, and I've seen people I admire falter. We're all vulnerable.

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

We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there's always something beautiful that you can find.

I just want people to know you can get through stuff. I hope people can see that in what my life has been and where it is going.

Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.

When you go through life, when you go through different things, you take risks, you question yourself. I think everybody does, at some point in their life, question themselves.

It hasn't been a totally smooth road, but in the whole span of things I feel like a very lucky person.

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.

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

I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.

'Growing Stronger' emerged from a need to relate my life experiences as well as my constant struggle to prevail each day, and as a reminder to myself of the importance of never giving up.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

Everything that has happened to me in my life has defined who I am, and all of the things leading up to being governor, that all came from overcoming challenges in childhood and overcoming challenges as I got older. When you have God, you quickly understand there's nothing you can't overcome.

The ups and downs are part of what has made you.

KIN' is basically a kind of rite of passage, scars-and-all celebration of going through difficult things in your life and being better for it.

I have learnt that life is full of ups and downs. And even though I've had rough times, I can't complain.

When I reflect on the losses I've experienced, I've come to believe that those experiences were transformative, that they shaped who I am.

I love my story. I wouldn't change it. It gives it character. It's never been on a silver spoon.

Life is a bunch of ups and downs. It's how you handle it.