William Faulkner Quotes

Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

'On earth the living have much to bear;' the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best.

I didn't mind a bit of hardship.

The stuff I've seen and lived and survived. Gun to my head, cops coming to your house. I had the confidence of telling myself that I'm going to make it. Everything I've been through, I could've had a mental breakdown, but I kept it together. If I didn't have that confidence I wouldn't have made it. That confidence has nothing to do with basketball.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, everybody knows this!

Don't give up. You're going to get kicked in the teeth. A lot. Learn to take a hit, then pick yourself up off the floor. Resilience is the true key to success.

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

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

You’d be surprised what a person can live with,” Dan said.

It is not just a person's physical constitution, their intellegence, their education, or even their social conditioning that enables them to withstand hardship. Much more significant is their inner development. And while some may be able to survive through sheer willpower, the ones who suffer the least are those who have a high degree of patience and courage in the face of adversity.

People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

This show has shown me how to throw a punch. But watching my future sister-in-law go through breast cancer has also shown me how to take one.

We all have a cross to carry. I have to carry my own cross. If we don't carry our crosses, we are going to be crushed under the weight of it.

Sometimes poverty is the greatest gift you can ever be given. Sometimes loss is the key that leads you to gain.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.

The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.