Edward Young Quotes

Enemies are an indication of character.

No magic formula can completely prepare us for crises in life. However, each choice we make now will impact how we handle those crises in the future. Make your choice count. Dedicate time each day to developing your character. If you do, courage will be there when you need it most.

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

My enemy is my greatest teacher.

A man with no enemies is a man with no character.

It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies.

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

I am getting better at facing the bouncers, as I know opposition tries to use those as a weapon against me. Yet, no one is perfect, and he takes time to master a particular thing.

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.

You just have to be comfortable in your own skin before you jump into something where people that you're going against are going to be better than you in some way every time.

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

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

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

The force of character is cumulative.

Knowing that you have something you have to deal with, rising to the occasion, builds character.