James E. Faust Quotes

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

When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble.

My mother always said that the strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell.

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

Whoever lives sincerely and encounters much trouble and disappointment without being bowed down is worth more than one who has always sailed before the wind and has only known prosperity.

The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period.

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.

There is an English saying, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." Women often become these tough ones.

The message I'm trying to say is that I'm tough because of life experience.

Strength and struggle travel together.

The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity

Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

A true champion is not judged by how much he or she is admired, but by how well they can stand at the face of adversity.

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

I've gone through many, many things. I tell you something, that if it doesn't kill you, you get stronger.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

I really believe in the old expression that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's through adversity that you find the strength you never knew you had.

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

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

I was very down as a teenager, very upset because I had gotten hurt in a car accident. But my dad was a source of strength. He used to say, 'It's the character with strength that God gives the most challenges to.' I've thought about that so many times in my life when things didn't go right.

I think everyone has to have their mettle tested in a tough fight.