Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.

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

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.

You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.

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

I think it's always the moments that are the trials that end up making you become a hero in the end. You're not a hero unless you've gone through the trials. And it makes these moments so much sweeter, so much better. I don't believe in 'deserved,' but I might believe in 'earned.'

It may be difficult to understand why a test comes our way, but we must never forget that the test is accomplishing refining and purification.

If you become a master of meaning, you become a master of your life. Two people can have the same experience. One person decides that because of that experience his or her life is over, while the other decides that God has challenged him or her to step up, face the challenge, and become more than he or she ever was before.

When I asked God for strength, He gave me difficult situations to face.

Trials show us where we are and where we need to grow. Dont run from them, grow from them.

It is often in the trial of adversity that we learn those most critical lessons that form our character and shape our destiny.

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

Just when all seems to be going right, challenges often come in multiple doses applied simultaneously. When those trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more. He therefore gives you experiences that stimulate growth, understanding, and compassion which polish you for your everylasting benefit.

Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.

Adversity is an effective, thorough and highly personalized teacher.

By facing our challenges and overcoming them, we grow stronger, wiser, and more compassionate.

Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better.

The things we overcome in life really become our strengths.

None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.

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.

The trials and pressures of life--and how we face them--often define us. Confronted by adversity, many people give up while others rise up. How do those who succeed do it? They persevere. They find the benefit to them personally that comes from any trial. And they recognize that the best thing about adversity is coming out on the other side of it. There is a sweetness to overcoming your troubles and finding something good in the process, however small it may be. Giving up when adversity threatens can make a person bitter. Persevering through adversity makes one better.

You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement.

Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test.

You will suffer, be tempted, and make mistakes. You will learn for yourself what every heroine has learned: through overcoming challenges come growth and strength. It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life's story will develop.

Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me personally a particularly easy time, but that was OK, that was normal. Most people, it seemed to me, took their turn to be football. Most survived. Some didn't.