M. Scott Peck Quotes

You learn from adversity more than anything because it allows you to see so much. It really allows you to see things in a different way.

I've learned from life experiences. If you go through certain things, you're able to pull from them.

We don't learn much when everything goes right. We learn the most when things go wrong.

Pain is one of life's great lessons. You need to know how you'll react to the negatives in your life. Only then will you learn from the pain, and the next time it happens, you can speed up your healing process.

Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something. Each time you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize there are more flavors of pain than coffee. Pain does two things: it teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. And everything that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one way or another.

Facing difficulties is inevitable. Learning from them is optional.

I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.

You learn more when things go wrong.

Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.

To me, you go through things like that and you learn from it. You add it on to your life, to try to make your life better. Instead of dogging people, learn something from it. And keep stepping.

Man needs difficulties. They are necessary for health.

You learn a lot more when you're going through a rough period compared to the good times when everything goes your way.

It takes facing obstacles to grow strong enough to overcome them.

Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.

Great leaders know that adversity produces the greatest opportunities in life.

I'm grateful for every opportunity. I learned the hard way.

I've been through a lot off the field. I think that kind of translates onto the field. Football serves for a lot of life lessons, and so it allows me to stay humble and continue to work.

I was a diligent little boy at my primary school and then I went to public school and became mediocre at most things and pretty rubbish at others. I had a really tough time. I didn't enjoy it at all. But it made me the man I am today.

Any experience you go through, you take something away from it, and I've always taken more from the harder times.

Baseball is a game based on adversity. It's a game that's going to test you repeatedly. It's going to find your weaknesses and vulnerabilities and force you to adjust. That adversity, in the big picture, is a really good thing because it shows you where your weaknesses are. It gives you the opportunity to improve.

When you face any adversity in life those are the kind of lessons you can take and remember. Those are the things that are going to help me not just in football but in life, which is priceless.

What's helped me is my childhood, my tough upbringing. I learnt a lot from that; it helps with any problems I might encounter.

We learn so much from difficulties.

I've obviously learned a lot, a lot of mental toughness, learned how to deal with some adversity. Hopefully I'm better for it.

Your problems are not there to defeat you, they are there to increase you.