Lloyd Alexander Quotes

Adversity is the refiner's fire that bends iron but tempers steel.

The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

Hard times produce your greatest gifts.

Life…never gave me a chance to be soft.

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

Great faith must have great trials.

No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

Prosperity has no power over adversity.

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

Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.

What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vosch. You are remaking us. We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.

You don't always get stronger on the days that everything comes easily to you.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

God, he deals you blows that at sometimes you think you can't handle and in the last year there have been things that we thought we couldn't handle but we've dealt with it up until this point.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

But at the end of the day, every star, every person that been iconic, has gone through a time in their lives where it was just bad. Everybody. It just made them better.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.