Honore de Balzac Quotes

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one's journey is easy. It's how they handle it that makes people unique.

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

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

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

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

Remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.

You learn about people when they do go through a little bit of adversity.

If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.

Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.

Calamity is virtue's opportunity.

The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.

Prosperity has no power over adversity.

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.

It is only the strong who are strengthened by suffering; the weak are made weaker.

Crisis doesn't create character; it reveals it.

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

Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties.