William J. H. Boetcker Quotes

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

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

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.

The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period.

Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.

He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.

A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

It is only the strong who are strengthened by suffering; the weak are made weaker.

Crisis doesn't create character; it reveals it.

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity

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

We all have moments of weakness. It’s how we recover from them that really counts.

Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone.

The measure of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.

Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.

Things are strongest where they're broken.

The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.

It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

Remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

I was very down as a teenager, very upset because I had gotten hurt in a car accident. But my dad was a source of strength. He used to say, 'It's the character with strength that God gives the most challenges to.' I've thought about that so many times in my life when things didn't go right.