Character comes not from success, but from withstanding failure. -

After all my writing on character tonight, the phrase comes to my mind, "Character is forged in adversity," and it occurs to me that I may have heard that somewhere -- that it might not be original. So, I word search, and find that the quote, "Character is forged on the anvil of adversity," is an existing quote. It may have been coined by one Lance Hill, or it may have had its origin before he ever uttered it.