Quotes About Adversity

It's only when something is burning that you find out who people really are.

To understand who people really are, start a fire. When everything is going fine, you see only the safest parts of people's character. It's only when something is burning that you find out who people really are.

To understand who people really are, start a fire. When everything is going fine, you see only the safest parts of people's character. It's only when something is burning that you find out who people really are. Of course, it's wrong to set a fire on purpose, but if you have a small fire already burning, let it burn and see who, if anyone, complains, runs away, or comes to help.

Difficult times are learning opportunities. Make sure you and your team take the time to examine what happened and how it could have been avoided.

The Art of Racing in the Rain".

Bronchial fix, lung lining expanding again, pounding holes, stabbing me in the back, bacterial traitor, wheezing breath from me, giving me the wonderful opportunity to take panting lessons from Rover.

My advisors tell me I've been poisoned and that I do it to myself, but their tongues speak only half-truths, for I was born to suffer, and that is truth incarnate.

May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them.

The problem with feelings is not the warmth you feel in good times; it's the coldness you feel in the dark times.

Though it was a horrible experience, it was ultimately a personal and professional breakthrough for me.

What has happened to you in the past matters much less than what you learned from it and how you apply that lesson going forward. What really matters is how you break through.

no matter how bad a situation may seem, we can learn from it and assign a new meaning to it that moves us closer to our goals.

The only handicap in life is a bad attitude.

it doesn't matter what the challenge is -athletics, business, romance, health, academics, the arts- the rule for getting up is the same. you just get up!

Have you ever stopped for a minute to think about how many things had to go wrong in your life for you to end up exactly where you are?

Some bad things are going to happen, but more great things are going to happen. If you tend to see more bad than good, then you have to build that positive muscle in your brain much like an athlete does certain muscles to execute a certain move.

The only disability in life is a bad attitude

All I'm saying is that we can't get caught up in our mistakes, our failures, our setbacks, or our victories. None of it defines us. None of this is worth holding on to. We have to build on every victory toward our next victory, or we'll miss the incredible potential we each have to bring our gifts to the world.

We're all dealt a different hand in this life. I don't know what hand you were dealt. But I know that the only thing we can do with our hand is play it—no bluffing. You can make the choice. You can either waste the opportunities you've been given, waste away in your regrets and failures, waste your gift, waste your time and energy and effort, and wait for your participation ribbon. Or you can choose to finish first. Which will you choose?

Not only should we expect lots and lots of failure, but we should also be grateful when it shows up because it means we are on the right track. Failure is a mile marker on the pathway to finishing first.

I don't know of any skater in the history of skating who fell down and just stayed there.

Instead of being smothered by your failures, debilitated by them, defeated by them, if you can learn from them, you have a superpower. True winners have a healthy appetite for failure. Because without failure, success means nothing.

Failure is not something to be feared but something to be cherished because it is always teaching us.

From that day on, I looked at what I believed to be "curses" as blessings, and I now realize that the ability to do so makes one a champion more than landing a perfect triple lutz does.