Horace Greeley Quotes

The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

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

It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.

I think there can always be beauty in struggle.

The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.

How could there be refining fires without our enduring some heat?

Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.

Sometimes out of your biggest misery, comes your greatest gain.

It's like growing lotus flowers. You cannot grow lotus flowers on marble. You have to grow them on the mud. Without mud you cannot have lotus flowers. Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.

Beauty that arose out of pain.

You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, every blow of the hammer will serve to shape your being. Every drop of water wrung from you will temper and strengthen your soul.

What hurts us is what heals us.

Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.

What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.

Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.

Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better.

Through every trial we grow. All suffering we experience has a meaning. Though it seems very cruel, it is like the fire that smelts the iron ore: the steel that emerges from that furnace is beautifully strong, useful for many purposes.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

Grace changes us and change is painful".

Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.

Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.