Ralph Marston Quotes

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

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

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

You have to go through the lows to go through the highs as well. It's something that's made me into a man.

I've obviously learned a lot, a lot of mental toughness, learned how to deal with some adversity. Hopefully I'm better for it.

The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.

Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

Sometimes the adversities you go through help you become a person you are proud of, and instead of hating what you're going through, maybe bless it because for some reason; it is going to build you into that person that you are proud of being.

I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.

Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.

There is no education like adversity.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

Deprivation sometimes can be one of the most marvelous teachers.

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

I know those challenges that come up from time to time in life are our little learning tools, our little steppingstones. If we didn't have those things in our life, how would we learn anything? We would just be walking around like nothing. We need those obstacles in our life because I know one thing - I'm a much better person for them.

I do believe in the old saying, 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

The ups and downs are part of what has made you.