Cesare Pavese Quotes

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

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.

When stuff happens to you, it just makes you tougher, man.

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

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

It's the trials and tribulations that really test a person, and coming through those difficulties is what shapes a person's character.

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

People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

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

There is no education like adversity.

From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.

There's going to be good things that get you, and there's going to be bad things that get you, so you better be willing, and your skin better be thick.

I don't think that having a hard time is inherently negative. I think that it can make you a stronger person; it can be tough and painful, but it can make you grow.

You have to handle the challenges and emerge stronger from them, rather than allow them to bog you down.

You learn from adversity more than anything because it allows you to see so much. It really allows you to see things in a different way.

My experience as a refugee had made me strong; I could survive anything, even the world of fashion.

I have been through little situations. That makes me strong.

Adversity teaches a man a lot about himself.

That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, everybody knows this!

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

Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.

We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths.