Diamonds are made under pressure

Adversity
“Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping stones to greater experience. Perhaps someday you will be thankful for some temporary failure in a particular direction. When one door closes, another always opens.” ~ Brian Adams
“There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. We seek out problems because we need their gifts.” ~ Richard Bach
“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.” ~ Joseph Campbell
“We’d never know how high we are ’till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our statures touch the sky.” ~ Emily Dickinson
“Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.” ~ Isak Dinesen
“Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.” ~ Noela Evans
“What is to give light must endure burning.” ~ Viktor Frankl
“Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.” ~ Billy Graham
“Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.” ~ Arthur Golden
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” ~ Napoleon Hill’
“Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” ~ Joshua J. Marine
“Looking back we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings.” ~ Dan Millman
“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.” ~ Peter Marshall
“The tests of life aren’t meant to break you but to make you.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” ~ Bernice Johnson Reagon
“One cannot get through life without pain. What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.” ~ Bernie. S. Siegel, M.D.
“Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.” ~ St. Basil
“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore
“Obstacles come to instruct, not obstruct.” ~ Brian Tracy
“The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.” ~ Unknown
“Do not fear the winds of adversity. Remember: a kite rises against the wind rather than with it.” ~ Unknown
“We grow through adversity. We need not seek it out; we can all look back at moments when our lives were in utter chaos, desolation and despair. Growth comes when we respond to adversity by stretching just an edge beyond our talent and experience.” ~ Dr. Robert D. Wald