Joyce Meyer Quotes

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

No magic formula can completely prepare us for crises in life. However, each choice we make now will impact how we handle those crises in the future. Make your choice count. Dedicate time each day to developing your character. If you do, courage will be there when you need it most.

The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.

It is a law of nature that you must do difficult things to gain strength and power. As with working out, after a while you make the connection between doing difficult things and the benefits you get from doing them, and you come to look forward to doing these difficult things.

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.

At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities

I've never, ever tried to make life easy for myself.

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

We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up. I made a pledge to myself that I would get up and emerge from this debacle better for having gone through it. I would live up to the expectation I had for myself. I would be the kind of man I wanted to be.

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

The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.

Suffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter.

The message I'm trying to say is that I'm tough because of life experience.

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

You don't get character because you're successful; you build character because of the hardships you face.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

Back in my day, which was about a week and a half ago, we took our lumps and we got back up and we cried like babies and quit and then put on weight.

None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.

Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

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