Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

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

Sometimes I think the most difficult moments in life were actually good because they made me strong. I was a child labourer. From this, I learned to stand on my own feet. So I don't want to forget the difficulty of my life.

Hardships can harden even the best person.

Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.

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

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

If the game shakes me or breaks me, I hope it makes me a better man.

You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times.

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

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

There is no education like adversity.

I consider adversity being good sometimes, you know.

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

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

When you go through really hard times, you really figure out who you are, how you respond to things, and how things affect you.

Adversity teaches a man a lot about himself.

There's challenges in life that present themselves unexpectedly, and if you rise to them, then those challenges will toughen you up.

No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.

Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.

It is written that adversity introduces us to ourselves.

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.

What did not demolish me simply polished me.