Chris Weidman Quotes

Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.

Every day, we have to strive to be better people. Some days we give in to weakness, and sometimes we give in to strength.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

Themes of redemption, temptation, and faith don't necessarily apply directly to religion. A lot of people find faith in their lives outside of God and still deal with notions of temptation and redemption that aren't religious.

That is life: you have to deal with things, and it's up to you how you deal with things. That's what makes you mature or not. If you can get the best out of yourself, that's all that matters. If you do that, nobody is arguing.

It took me a long time to get my life screwed up, and it's going to take a long time to get it back.

No one is above temptation. No one is above life in general.

I'm not a perfect human being by any stretch of the imagination. But there is always this little voice inside of me that keeps me where I know I need to be.

He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong.

It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.

Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

Self-control is the only possible road to character development

I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.

He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.

I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.