Josh Billings Quotes

There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found?

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

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

The hardest things in my life have made me who I am.

You can't really know what you are made of until you are tested.

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

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.

The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them.

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.

Our pain can be our greatest teacher. It leads us to places we'd never go on our own.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we're made of.

Adversity is an opportunity for self-discovery.

It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.

We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.

Somewhere, on the long road that wound through those four years, the girl with her sachet & dancing slippers had slipped away & there was left a woman with sharp green eyes, who counted pennies & turned her hands to many menial tasks, a woman to whom nothing was left from the wreckage except the indestructible red earth on which she stood.

We all have to go through the tumbler a few times before we can emerge as a crystal.

It was hard. I came to grips with a lot of difficulties that I've overcome. Each challenge kind of makes you who you are. It wasn't always a good thing. I have my own struggles in my life because of the things I was forced to overcome.

I have overcome some demons in my path.

I think, as people, we deal with struggles.

People can grow from adversity as much as they do from prosperity.

It is tough: sometimes the pain that you feel makes you grow.