Rashad Evans Quotes

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.

You find strength in your moments of weakness.

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

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.

Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.

Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test.

It occurred to me then that it was in times of struggle that I found the best parts of myself - courage, loyalty, an unexpected peace - and I always discovered what I needed to break through and go on.

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.

Circumstances don't make a person; they reveal him or her.

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

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

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

When you go through really hard times, you really figure out who you are, how you respond to things, and how things affect you.

Adversity teaches a man a lot about himself.

I'm learning how strong I am, how resilient I am. I'm learning my weaknesses.

When life hits you hard, it can throw you off course. But how you handle that adversity can teach you so much about yourself and change your perspective on what you actually want from life.

I think all human beings can surprise themselves when they are in situations where they are tested. That's when you see your true character coming out, and I was definitely tested.

"Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within reach of self-knowledge."

Tribulation first makes one realize what one is.

You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.

You can't really know what you are made of until you are tested.