Quotes About Strength

The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crises, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

Down you mongrel, Death! Back into your kennel!

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helper.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.

I have been in sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

There is often in people to whom "the worst" has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced "the worst" and survived it.

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

How sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

He disposes Doom who hath suffered him.

Suffering has always been with us, does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.

Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the next one.

The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.

It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.

It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. ... Great necessities call out great virtues.

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

Difficulties are things that show what men are.

Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affection or grief has humanized the soul.