Yehuda Berg Quotes

Life is challenging. I wish I could tell you that you’ll always be on top of the mountain, but the reality is that there are days when nothing will go right, when not only will you not be on top, you may not even be able to figure out which way is up. Do yourself a favor, and don’t make it any harder than it has to be. In those moments, be careful how you speak to yourself; be careful how you think of yourself; be careful how you conduct yourself; be careful how you develop yourself.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

I was never at my best when I was at my worst. When I did do good stuff in the past, it was because I was able to transcend the parts of my being that weren't healthy.

When I am wrong, I will learn the lesson and move on to face other challenges. For me, that's what creating your own life is. Doing your best work while being your best self.

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

Listen, trials and difficult times can help you become better and move forward, or they can cause you to step backward. It's how you handle those situations that shows who you can become.

I believe the tough fights bring out the better fighter in myself.

At the end of the day, everything I've been through on and off the court, I'm the only common denominator.

You know, that's the thing that people sometimes miss, is the fact that those moments when you're at your relatively speaking, lowest, are the times when you can learn the most.

I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean.

It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you're being knocked down, 'Why am I being knocked down?' If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.

It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary.

When you face difficult times, know that challenges are not sent to destroy you. They're sent to promote, increase and strengthen you.

You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.

I always try and do my best and put out the best and find the best in me, as well. But I'm not thinking about it beforehand.

The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.

We never know who we are going to be until we are tested, but perhaps we can test ourselves without going to the extremes of war. Perhaps we can be kinder now, live with less now, reach out to others now - and build an inner reserve of a strong identity that will hold us up even when everything else falls away.

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

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.