Strength Through Struggle Quotes

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure

Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much.

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

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.

We don't grow as human beings from good things happening. We grow from failures.

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted.

It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror; and this cannot be without toil.

It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.

Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve. Physician, draw back.

The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vosch. You are remaking us. We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.

Storms make oaks take deeper root.

We learn to fight and to grow strong by fighting.

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

The pain is necessary. Sometimes pain is the teacher we require, a hidden gift of healing and hope.

When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble.

No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

Without your downs, without your hardships, I don't think you appreciate the ups as much.

Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.

Your problems are not there to defeat you, they are there to increase you.

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?

Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews, and far-reaching intellects.

Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand proudly to it. Metal's worthless till it is shaped and tempered. More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving; and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.

Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. Great faith must have great trials.