Kerri Walsh Quotes

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.

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

We are put in situations to build our character... not destroy us.

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.

ADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.

By facing our challenges and overcoming them, we grow stronger, wiser, and more compassionate.

Everything that happens helps you grow, even if its hard to see right now.

You don't overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

I really believe in the old expression that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's through adversity that you find the strength you never knew you had.

I consider adversity being good sometimes, you know.

It's all the stuff I've been through in my life. From family struggles, people doubting me, things I went through as a child and going to prison, they all played a factor in who I am today. It really made me a better person. Going through those situations can make or break you as a human being.

There's challenges in life that present themselves unexpectedly, and if you rise to them, then those challenges will toughen you up.

If you did not face problems you would just drift through life. It is through solving problems in accordance with the highest light we have that inner growth is attained.

Hardships can harden even the best person.

Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.

As the most generous vine, if it is not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems, and grows at last weak and fruitless; so dote the best man, if he be not cut short of his desires and pruned with afflictions. If it be painful to bleed, it is worse to wither. Let me be pruned, that I may grow, rather than be cut up to burn.

At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear and simple. The reason for problems is to overcome them. Why, that’s the very nature of man, I thought, to press past limits, to prove his freedom. It isn’t the challenge that faces us, that determines who we are and what we are becoming, but the way we meet the challenge, whether we toss a match at the wreck or work our way through it, step by step, to freedom.

Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.

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

Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.

I try to view the challenges in my life not as annoyances, but as confirmations of fortitude.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character. Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything.