Marie Antoinette Quotes

"Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within reach of self-knowledge."

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

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this.

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

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

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

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

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

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

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

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

When you go through really hard times, you really figure out who you are, how you respond to things, and how things affect you.

It was a great experience for me - the ups and downs - because I became a man in Philadelphia.

Everything that, by the grace of the universe, I was able to become is the direct result of everything I went through.

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.

You find strength in your moments of weakness.

When life hits you hard, it can throw you off course. But how you handle that adversity can teach you so much about yourself and change your perspective on what you actually want from life.

I think all human beings can surprise themselves when they are in situations where they are tested. That's when you see your true character coming out, and I was definitely tested.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

As the most generous vine, if it is not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems, and grows at last weak and fruitless; so dote the best man, if he be not cut short of his desires and pruned with afflictions. If it be painful to bleed, it is worse to wither. Let me be pruned, that I may grow, rather than be cut up to burn.