Quotes About Adversity

He who is shipwrecked the second time cannot lay the blame on Neptune.

If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.

We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. "By getting up every time I fell down," he answered.

Don't let a kick in the ass stop you. It's how you cope that says what you are.

What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure.

Sometimes what you want to do has to fail so you won't.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice, or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure until he's dead or loses his courage - and that's the same thing.

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, it's nothing against you to fall down flat, but to lie there - that's disgrace.

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and fall.

Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare, not by those who dare to fail.

Life is very interesting, if you make mistakes.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.

Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures, but the one who turns failures to best account.

Failure is God's own tool for carving some of the finest outlines in the character of his children.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits; on his manhood; he has gained the facts; learned his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.