M. Scott Peck Quotes

Your current situations or problems have been sent to you to teach you valuable lessons for success and happiness. What are they?

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

You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.

You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

You have to handle the challenges and emerge stronger from them, rather than allow them to bog you down.

We all have our struggles; we have our things that we grow through.

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

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.

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.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.

I've learned how to turn the adversities in my life into enriching experiences. You can actually gain a lot from adversities and they make you the person you are today.

Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.

Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.

It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.

It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.

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

Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

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

Facing difficulties is inevitable. Learning from them is optional.

It is interesting to note that life never leaves us stranded. If life hands us a problem, it hands us also the abilities with which to meet the problem.