Charles Spurgeon Quotes

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

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.

A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.

No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.

Every single experience, every single thing that's happened in my life, struggle, obstacle, trials and tribulations, I think they've all molded me to become the character and the person who I am.

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

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

There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.

Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles -famine, disease and such-like -and some folks are born with money, some with none. In the end it is up to the man what he becomes, and none of those other things matters. It is character that counts.

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

There is no education like adversity.

I consider adversity being good sometimes, you know.

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.