Felicia Hemans Quotes

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

Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\

Adversity is an opportunity for self-discovery.

As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.

Challenges, when you're in a tumultuous situation, are an opportunity to grow, an opportunity to get closer to God, an opportunity to find and kind of reform yourself, and to figure out what really matters and what your priorities are.

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

I really believe in the old expression that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's through adversity that you find the strength you never knew you had.

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

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

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

Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.

I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.

From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.

The hardest things in my life have made me who I am.

It's the trials and tribulations that really test a person, and coming through those difficulties is what shapes a person's character.

You learn from adversity more than anything because it allows you to see so much. It really allows you to see things in a different way.

Adversity teaches a man a lot about himself.

When stuff happens to you, it just makes you tougher, man.

Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

You can't really know what you are made of until you are tested.

And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.