A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)

Tis a lesson you should heed, Try, try, try again. If at first you don't succeed, Try, try, try again. (Quote by - William Edward Hickson)

Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd. (Quote by - John Milton)

The child of trial, to mortality And all its changeful influences given; On the green earth decreed to move and die, And yet by such a fate prepared for heaven. (Quote by - Sir Humphrey Davy)

But noble souls, through dust and heat, Rise from disaster and defeat The stronger. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

God prepares great men for great tasks by great trials. (Quote by - J. K. Gressett)

As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them. - Charles Hadden Spurgeon. (Quote by - Charles Hadden Spurgeon)

Pray, pray, thou who also weepest,-- And the drops will slacken so; Weep, weep--and the watch thou keepest, With a quicker count will go. Think,--the shadow on the dial For the nature most undone, Marks the passing of the trial, Proves the presence of the sun. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surface. (Quote by - Charles Hadden Spurgeon)

There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below. (Quote by - Charles Hadden Spurgeon)

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. (Quote by - Ouida)