Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

It's fun to play somebody who's kind of struggling.

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

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

The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.

How would I behave in a situation that caused me to summon the essence of my character? The tragedy inspired me to test myself. I wanted to reveal to myself who I was: the kind of person who died, or the kind of person who overcame circumstances to help himself and others

Adversity is an opportunity for self-discovery.

For he who loses all often easily loses himself.

I believe that we start to see our true personalities when we go through the most difficult moments. This is when we get stronger

We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.

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

It's the trials and tribulations that really test a person, and coming through those difficulties is what shapes a person's character.

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

You get to know who you really are in a crisis.

We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them.

You're always trying to look for material that is as challenging as possible, so that's why I like stuff where the characters go through the most difficult times they've ever had in their life. It makes me push myself further and learn more about myself.

There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming.

Adversity often hatches out the true nobility of character.

Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself

One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.

Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.

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.

Anything that forces the human soul to scream out and fight really brings out the best in us, and to have an opportunity to portray characters like that is inspiring.

And I thought, you know, a little gender confusion makes a better person. A little adversity in life at an early age. It's character building.

We come to know who we really are in life during the dark and difficult and desolate days of our journey.

Often the deep valleys of our PRESENT will be UNDERSTOOD only by LOOKING BACK on them from the mountains of our FUTURE experience. Often we can’t see the LORD’S HAND in our lives until long after the trials have passed. Often the most difficult times of our lives are ESSENTIAL building blocks that form the FOUNDATION of our CHARACTER and pave the way to FUTURE opportunity, understanding, and happiness.