growth through hardship Quotes

Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.

Adversity is the refiner's fire that bends iron but tempers steel.

Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.

We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them.

Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?

Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.

As in nature, as in the arts, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls as well as stones their lustre; the more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, their God has no end in view but to perfect His people's graces. Our Father, and and kindest of fathers, He afflicts not willingly; He sends tribulations, but hear St Paul tell their purpose, - "Tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience, and experience hope."

Those things that hurt, instruct.

Adversity is the mother of progress.

Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?

The more we die, the stronger we will become

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.

Suffering in life can uncover untold depths of character and unknown strength for service. People who go through life unscathed by sorrow and untouched by pain tend to be shallow in their perspectives on life. Suffering, on the other hand, tends to plow up the surface of our lives to uncover the depths that provide greater strength of purpose and accomplishment. Only deeply plowed earth can yield bountiful harvests.

You need bad things to make good things. It’s like with farming— if you want to grow a good crop, you need a lot of manure.