Edward Young Quotes

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

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

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

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

Adversity often hatches out the true nobility of character.

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue.

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

The rice grain suffers under the blow of the pestle. But admire its whiteness once the order is over. So it is with men and the world we live in. To be a man one must suffer the blows of misfortune.

It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Adversity creates comedy.

God, he deals you blows that at sometimes you think you can't handle and in the last year there have been things that we thought we couldn't handle but we've dealt with it up until this point.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.

I am determined to go through the horror of this world.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it.

I don't think one ever stops struggling.

It is so easy to be pleasant and charming and positive when life is going swimmingly well. You are winning. You are healthy. You are happy. But what happens when life throws darts at you?