Mike Watt Quotes

The hardest things in my life have made me who I am.

The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.

Sometimes bad things have to happen before good things can.

People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.

Adversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

You wouldn't wish hardship on anyone, but when it comes, you would be crazy not to see the huge growth that will come from it.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

This past year has been something else... it's opened my eyes to many things and many people. It's had its ups and downs and ins and outs. And I believe we've all been able to take something from that and grow in our own imparticular ways. We've over come obstacles, and set in motion opportunities that can change our own individual lives.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.

Sometimes poverty is the greatest gift you can ever be given. Sometimes loss is the key that leads you to gain.

In so many things, growth comes from adversity.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

I think life has a way of kicking you in the pants too, but you have to pick up and move ahead, and it certainly helps if you have a good partner in life.

The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.

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

Good things are often birthed from adversity.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.

I've always felt in life, you get a lot of things you have to overcome.