Charles Stanley Quotes

Adversity will surface in some form in every life. How we prepare for it, how we meet it, makes the difference. We can be broken by adversity, or we can become stronger. The final result is up to the individual'.

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

When you go through really hard times, you really figure out who you are, how you respond to things, and how things affect you.

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

Hardships can harden even the best person.

It is... very helpful to think of adversity not so much as a threat to our peace of mind but rather as the very means by which patience is attained.

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

The question is not whether or not you will face trials. The question is, how will you respond when you do?

We are not measured by the trials we meet -- only by those we overcome.

It is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them.

Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

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

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Obviously, resilience matters. I was no stranger to adversity, but it's different when it's personal. Not something I would recommend.

One emerges as a better person after going through the wringer.

Adversity teaches a man a lot about himself.

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

There's challenges in life that present themselves unexpectedly, and if you rise to them, then those challenges will toughen you up.

It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be but how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way.