Eric Butterworth Quotes

Bad times can make you bitter or better.

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.

Either your troubles make you better, or they make you bitter. We must always examine what’s going on in our hearts.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

Negative feedback can make us bitter or better.

The reward of suffering is experience.

The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.

I do believe in the old saying, 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

You grow from all those things you go through.

I've been through a lot off the field. I think that kind of translates onto the field. Football serves for a lot of life lessons, and so it allows me to stay humble and continue to work.

After certain ups and downs, a person does change, and I have changed for good.

I overcame a lot of things, growing up, as everyone does.

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

I'm grateful for situations that have tested me and shaped me.

Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy.

Something horrible may have happened to you, but you always have a choice in how you respond to it. You have the "Why does bad stuff always happen to me? I'm never going to find happiness" option, and the "This sucks but I'm going to learn and evolve from it, examine what role I played in it, and ultimately it will help me become the person I'm supposed to be" option.

That experience which does not make us better makes us worse.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.

When people feel that they have failed, it's usually because somebody or something caused them to feel that way and taste defeat. I refuse to dwell on that. Yes, it sucks at first, and the feeling is valid, but it all happens for a reason.

The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.

When you feel humiliated or things like that, you either use it as fuel to change or you get covered by it.

As a player and a coach, I've had plenty of great moments, but I've also experienced disappointments. The disappointments are not about self-doubt, but rather about change. I've always seen failures as a personal challenge. I say to myself: Now I have to find out if I have the right stuff.

What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the same effect upon them.

It's not about being bitter, it's about getting better.