Horace Bushnell Quotes

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

It was hard. I came to grips with a lot of difficulties that I've overcome. Each challenge kind of makes you who you are. It wasn't always a good thing. I have my own struggles in my life because of the things I was forced to overcome.

You don't overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.

Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

When you have bad moments, you have to improve. You have to become stronger to deal with it, and I believe I have become stronger.

Man's soul is strengthened by suffering.

I kind of almost get enjoyment out of adversity in life.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

The fastest way to become the master of your thoughts and emotions is through challenging situations. If your life is going along fairly smoothly, there are not the same opportunities that enable you to strengthen your power and become the master of your thoughts and emotions. You see, even challenges are beautiful opportunities in disguise.

We learn to fight and to grow strong by fighting.

Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.

Today's burdens can strengthen you for tomorrow.

I try to view the challenges in my life not as annoyances, but as confirmations of fortitude.

Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber.

It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you're being knocked down, 'Why am I being knocked down?' If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

A life without problems would be a barren existence, without the opportunity for spiritual growth.

Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken

There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.

Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.

It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.