Josh Billings Quotes

A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable … Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister’s library.

Don't give up. You're going to get kicked in the teeth. A lot. Learn to take a hit, then pick yourself up off the floor. Resilience is the true key to success.

I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.

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

Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

You can and you must expect suffering.

You don't get character because you're successful; you build character because of the hardships you face.

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

Life has a way of breaking even the strongest among us.

When you go through enough dark places, you don't complain about little things. You don't lose your joy because you got stuck in traffic; you don't get offended because a coworker was rude to you. You've been through too much to let that sour you.

A hard life improves the vision.

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

Nietzsche famously said "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." But what he failed to stress is that it almost kills you.

The struggles I'm facing, The chances I'm taking, Sometimes might knock me down, But no, I'm not breaking.

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

I wanted to finish on a stronger note. Fighting through that routine, you know what I was like, 'I'm just fighting through.'

[W]hen the coyote falls, he gets up and brushes himself off; it's preservation of dignity. He's humiliated, and it worries him when he ends up looking like an accordion. A coyote isn't much, but it's better than being an accordion.

it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.

The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period.

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