Rick Yancey Quotes

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.

We learn to fight and to grow strong by fighting.

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

Only the strongest are put through the fire,' Josiah said. 'And the forge creates things of great strength and beauty.' 'Then I shall be truly glorious by the time my tenure ends.

It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror; and this cannot be without toil.

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

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

One emerges as a better person after going through the wringer.

What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended.

Hardships can harden even the best person.

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up. I made a pledge to myself that I would get up and emerge from this debacle better for having gone through it. I would live up to the expectation I had for myself. I would be the kind of man I wanted to be.

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

Obstacles are found everywhere, and in overcoming them we nourish ourselves.

Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable.

I am like a huge rough stone...and the only polishing I get is when some corner gets rubbed off by coming in contact with something else, striking with accelerated force...thus I will become a smooth and polished shaft in the quiver of the Almightly.

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.

You can't go through the kinds of things I've gone through, as much as I have, without re-evaluating yourself and making adjustments. And you can't endure these horrendous circumstances without developing a certain level of strength and wisdom.

From adversity we can learn the value of patience.

Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.

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

Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.

The essential thing in life is not so much conquering as fighting well.

The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for the world was naught by a school of calamity and an endless burning furnace of tribulation. But those who survived the world shaped it--even as the world, simultaneously, shaped them.