Daphne du Maurier Quotes

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

Adversity can strengthen us if it does not go on too long.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

If you're never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you'll never get better.

How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.

No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.

Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.

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

Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.

Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.

Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it and tried.

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

I'm a little bit of a glutton for punishment, especially when it comes to work. I don't mind a bit of suffering. I think it's in suffering that we realize our best selves.

He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

You can and you must expect suffering.

I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things.

I like challenges and I don't believe in failure. I don't believe in regrets. I believe suffering, failure - all those concepts - are things that are absolutely necessary to make us the best people that we can be, the best at whatever we want to do.

All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.

It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.

None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.

My father always used to say, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger," - 'til the accident.

That which does not kill me can only make me stronger.

A hard life improves the vision.