Ann Aguirre Quotes

It's easy to be good when things are great; it's tough to be good when they're not.

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

The real test of our character is when the bottom falls out.

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

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

It is so easy to be pleasant and charming and positive when life is going swimmingly well. You are winning. You are healthy. You are happy. But what happens when life throws darts at you?

We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.

A man's character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall.

Success comes from doing the hard part. When the hard part is all you've got, you're more likely to do it. And this is precisely why it's difficult to focus. Because focusing means acknowledging that you just signed up for the hard part.

It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.

When I asked God for strength, He gave me difficult situations to face.

How could there be refining fires without our enduring some heat?

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.

It is often in the trial of adversity that we learn those most critical lessons that form our character and shape our destiny.

We're all going to have tests in our life... We never know when that test comes, but we know we have to be prepared for it. We're all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.

Extremity is the trier of spirits.

Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.

Sad times May follow your tracks, Bad times May bar you from Saks, Add times When Satan in slacks Breaks down your self control.

The journey towards success is not always easy or upwards.

The greatest measure of a human being isn't how he handles himself when things are going well, but how he handles himself when things are going badly, when defeat comes.

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.