Alan Cohen Quotes

It's not so much what you accomplish in life that really matters, but what you overcome that proves who you are, what you are, and whether you are a champion.

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.

You're always trying to look for material that is as challenging as possible, so that's why I like stuff where the characters go through the most difficult times they've ever had in their life. It makes me push myself further and learn more about myself.

But regardless of our circumstances, they do not define us - not unless we give in and let them. Circumstances never determine who we are; they reveal who we are.

I believe that we start to see our true personalities when we go through the most difficult moments. This is when we get stronger

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

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

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

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.

When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

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.

The truth is, I don't find my value in my body or my weight. It's really more about who I am and what I can offer as a human being to the people in my life and the people in the world.

I've had some real hard setbacks in this sport and I learned to realize that you can't really build who you are on what people say. That's ultimately building your foundation in sand.

You get to know who you really are in a crisis.

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

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

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

Where you are is not who you are

Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.

Anything that forces the human soul to scream out and fight really brings out the best in us, and to have an opportunity to portray characters like that is inspiring.

Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.

When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character.

I'm not afraid of scars, be them emotional or otherwise. I think it builds character, and if it doesn't destroy you, I truly believe it makes us stronger.