Robin Sharma Quotes

Life is full of challenges. How you handle these challenges is what builds character. Never be afraid to be who you are.

There's always a positive to those negative times, because you come out of it so much stronger and wiser. Strength comes from every hardship, and it's been a lesson for me.

The ways in which people are damaged are the ways in which they're strong. It's what makes people interesting - what they've overcome and how, and what they haven't and how that's become a good thing. Almost everyone's life is both a gorgeous story and a tragedy. I think being alive is really, really hard, and I'm constantly stunned and amazed by people who make it interesting and beautiful.

I really believe in the old expression that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's through adversity that you find the strength you never knew you had.

In my life I had no other choice than to become a strong person.

Everything's the same; I'm living with cancer and it's not going to stop me. But until you really test yourself and challenge yourself, I don't think you quite know.

Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.

The hardest things in my life have made me who I am.

My main inspirations are the people around me, heartbreaks, frustration and everything that makes you feel stronger than you should.

I try to view the challenges in my life not as annoyances, but as confirmations of fortitude.

...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure and time. Less time is crystal. Less than that is coal. Less than that is fossilized leaves. Less than that it's just plain dirt. In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be.

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Beautiful revelations of power are often written by the guy who got kicked around and didn’t have any power.

We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside.

Without defeats, how do you really know who the hell you are? If you never had to stand up to something - to get up, to be knocked down, and to get up again - life can walk over you wearing football cleats. But each time you do get up, you're bigger, taller, finer, more beautiful, more kind, more understanding, more loving. Each time you get up, you're more inclusive. More people can stand under your umbrella.

The things we overcome in life really become our strengths.

Everyone is going to face challenges. What defines you is how you overcome those.

It was hard. I came to grips with a lot of difficulties that I've overcome. Each challenge kind of makes you who you are. It wasn't always a good thing. I have my own struggles in my life because of the things I was forced to overcome.

Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we're never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?

Of course we all break and we all cry and stumble. It's whether you allow the negative experiences to define you or shape you and make you become who you are in the best possible way. You use them as tools.

Once I've learned all those things and gotten through the hard times, I come out feeling really powerful.

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit... and keep moving forward.

It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.

It's not what you accomplish in life that matters; it's what you overcome.