Sugar Ray Leonard Quotes

I have overcome some demons in my path.

We learn and grow and become stronger as we face and survive the trials through which we must pass.

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

The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves.

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

I think when you look at a struggle in your life, just know that's just an opportunity for your character to grow.

I can bounce back from adversity and reinvent my life - it's possible

That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.

When we face the worst that can happen in any situation, we grow. When circumstances are at their worst, we can find our best.

There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations.

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

This world and life of ours are filled with inequalities. The worst possible use to make of this fact, however, is to allow resentments to possess us. All of us have imagined limitations, but we have also the privilege of pushing them aside, and spreading our lives out! We never know any of our limitations until we put ourselves to the test. There are always "growing pains" working within us.

...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure and time. Less time is crystal. Less than that is coal. Less than that is fossilized leaves. Less than that it's just plain dirt. In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be.

Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber.

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

Life itself is always a trial. In training, you must test and polish yourself in order to face the great challenges of life.

Never let the worst of you get the best of you.

When I hit bottom, I can attack the problem and get to where I want to be.

It is the measure of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light.

A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.

Like I tell everyone, I say the bottom line to my life is that I've gone through torments in my life, but it made me stronger. I haven't lost my mind, I haven't become a dope fiend, I'm not a drug pusher, I'm not a stick-up man.

Find the meaning behind whatever it is you're going through because everybody's got something.

Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.

The process of life is ever unfolding, guiding you, pushing you, preparing you for the next part of the process. Difficult challenges, bad days, upset feelings, moments of confusion are part of life's process. Perhaps these things are there to keep us alert, to make us stronger, or to test our resolve to keep moving forward.