Samuel Daniel Quotes

There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.

Difficult times often bring out the best in people.

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

There are two types of men: the great and the small.

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.

To the stars through thorns.

Remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

Really, the measure of a man is when they're tired and exhausted.

In a crisis, you separate the men from the boys.

No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.

It is difficulties that show what men are.

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.

A crisis unmasks everyone.

Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

We are reviled but we do not intend to speak evil in return. We are in desperate straits but do not despair. We are persecuted but not forsaken. It’s easy to humiliate and crush people who are open, but when I am weak, then I am strong.

Difficulty shows what men are.

Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.