Misfortune Favorable Conditions Growth Nietzsche Matchboxes

If you believe that hardship and misfortune are the keys to success and great growth, you'll enjoy this timeless inspirational quote by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche wrote the following: "Examine the lives of the best and most fruitful people and peoples are ask yourselves whether a tree that is supposed to grow to a proud height can dispense with bad weather and storms; whether misfortune and external resistance, some kinds of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, mistrust, hardness, avarice, and violence do not belong among the favorable conditions without which any great growth even of virtue is scarcely possible." Words of wisdom from Friedrich Nietzsche on this motivational quote matchbox -- especially apropos for anyone who has survived bad weather and storms in his or her life!