Esperanza Spalding Quotes

Any experience you go through, you take something away from it, and I've always taken more from the harder times.

There's always a positive to those negative times, because you come out of it so much stronger and wiser. Strength comes from every hardship, and it's been a lesson for me.

Most people would identify with the fact that we tend to be defined by the struggles we came through than by the successes. And certainly for me that's true.

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

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

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.

When you are having a rough day... you think you are failing. But failure is a part of life. It's about building character and growing.

In our culture, I feel like everyone just wants the good life, the dream life, but I'm learning to embrace suffering because with suffering there's so much good that comes out of it.

That's the good part of an injury, it strengthens you in many ways.

I'm interested in little people. 'The little, great people' is how I would put it, because suffering expands people.

I think hard times either bring out the best in you or the worst, and I think I've luckily managed to bring out all the positives in myself.

When you have bad moments, you have to improve. You have to become stronger to deal with it, and I believe I have become stronger.

I don't think I'm any worse for my bad experiences. Actually, they have made me better.

If you let tragedies stop you along the way, then you're never going to grow as a person.

You have to experience and take defeat in any and all aspects of life so you can be better and stronger.

I've had some ups and downs in my personal life, but I have overcame them.

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

Remember,too,that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start,and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive". The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at some moment of crisis,through which they are introduced to their "other selves".

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.

Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.

Life is an endless, truly endless struggle. There's no time when we're going to arrive at a plateau where the whole thing gets sorted. It's a struggle in the way every plant has to find it's own way to stand up straight. A lot of the time it's a failure. And yet it's not a failure if some enlightenment comes from it.

You can get through it and you can land on your feet triumphantly and strong.

We all have unfair situations and things we don't like. You can get bitter, discouraged and sour, or you can see it as fertilizer and say, “ This difficulty is not going to defeat me; it's going to promote me. It's not going to hinder me; it's going to help me.” Don't just go through it, grow through it.