Tom Allen Quotes

Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.

I always think that struggle can bring out the best in people - or the worst.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

Once you've been through tough times, you can only become stronger.

When stuff happens to you, it just makes you tougher, man.

No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

The pressure you are facing is not going to break you. It's going to make you.

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

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

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.

You really find out who your friends are and who you can trust. That definitely toughens you.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

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

Sometimes, when the wind hits hard and icicles form on the sea cliffs, we can all come together - and at those times, we are at our best.

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person.

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

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Difficult times often bring out the best in people.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.