Richard G. Scott Quotes

Life is not about focusing on the obstacles. It's about how you handle them, and whether you get enlightenment or levity from the way you do it

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.

Your current situations or problems have been sent to you to teach you valuable lessons for success and happiness. What are they?

You can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift...You get to choose

Look Upon Every Experience You've Ever Had ... as Having Been Sent to You for Your Benefit

Every positive thing in your life represents a single unique blessing. Every negative thing in your life has the opportunity to become a double blessing. For when you turn a negative into a positive, you gain twice. You are no longer burdened with the negative situation, and in addition to that you are strengthened by a new positive force.

Sometimes the adversities you go through help you become a person you are proud of, and instead of hating what you're going through, maybe bless it because for some reason; it is going to build you into that person that you are proud of being.

I think everybody has ups and downs in their lives. We learn from the biggest disappointments, right? You learn how to be humble to yourself and to be humble to others.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

In our personal and professional lives, we are constantly hit with one adversity after the other, most of which we have no control over. But the four things we have total control over is how we react, how we adapt, how we breathe, and how we take action.

I'm grateful for every opportunity. I learned the hard way.

I am even thankful for the negative things that have made me a stronger and better person.

It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be but how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way.

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

Everything that happens is either a blessing, which is also a lesson, or a lesson which is also a blessing.

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.

And I reminded myself that it's easy to be grateful for the obvious blessings in life, much harder to be grateful for the tough moments and the lessons they teach.

When something I can't control happens, I ask myself : where is the hidden gift, where is the positive in this?

I've passed along some advice that Oprah [Winfrey] gave to me: When something bad is happening, it's not happening to you; it's happening for you.

When I think of my past, I try to dwell on the good times, the happy moments, and not to be haunted by the bad. . . To me the gift of life is contained in the command, whatever happens: "Don't let it get you. Just keep on going." Thus, I try to think of the good that I have already experienced and what will still be coming.

Assume that whatever situation you are facing at the moment is exactly the right situation you need to ultimately be successful. This situation has been sent to help you become better, to help you expand and grow.

"...All events are blessings given to us to learn from and therefore we should be grateful for the opportunity to grow and evolve into our best selves."

We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.

From adversity we can learn the value of patience.