Chin-Ning Chu Quotes

We learn to fight and to grow strong by fighting.

We are reviled but we do not intend to speak evil in return. We are in desperate straits but do not despair. We are persecuted but not forsaken. It’s easy to humiliate and crush people who are open, but when I am weak, then I am strong.

I've gone through many, many things. I tell you something, that if it doesn't kill you, you get stronger.

The most important thing is that sometimes you have to go through hard times to get to the good stuff.

Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

To Be Attacked by the Enemy Is Not a Bad Thing but a Good Thing.

Adversity builds muscle. Adversity creates strength. Adversity, it turns out, is preparation for success.

The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.

Strength and struggle travel together.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.

As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

What is hard to remember when you're in the middle of it is that when you get through to the other side, you always walk away with a gift. If you can stand in there and not walk away from it, you get transformed by it.

The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

Every burden is a blessing.

Just like gold, which has to weather very high temperatures to achieve the sheen and shine it finally gets, so also every person has to go through struggles in his life to achieve success.

I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood.

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.

He who does not tire, tires adversity.

Any kind of crisis can be good. It wakes you up.