Thomas a Kempis Quotes

Circumstances don't make a person; they reveal him or her.

In tough times, that's when you see true colours and personality.

Circumstances don't create character. They reveal character.

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.

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

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

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.

There is only one sin and it is: weakness. When I was a boy, I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good man I had any respect for was Satan. The only saint is that person who never weakens, faces everything, and determines die game.

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.

Sure, when you're in the midst of your own suffering, it's easy to convince yourself that you're no good—but we are all tested in this life...The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

But regardless of our circumstances, they do not define us - not unless we give in and let them. Circumstances never determine who we are; they reveal who we are.

He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.

Even in hell, if a man was a man, you'd know it.

Character is the virtue of hard times.

Circumstances do not make you what you are, they reveal what you are.

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

Crisis doesn't create character; it reveals it.

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

You never know yourself until the chips are down. True strength is not measured when your at your strongest, but when you’re at your weakest.

Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit.