Quotes About Adversity

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.

Failure is that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.

People fail forward to success.

Failure is not sweet, but it need not be bitter.

Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?

Faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It is, instead, an inner force that gives them the strength to face those storms and their consequences with serenity of spirit.

You can see them alongside the shuffleboard courts in Florida or on the porches of the old folks' homes up north.... They are in love, they have always been in love, although sometimes they would have denied it. And because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.

Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

AH the fat's in the fire.

But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones.

The poor schlemiel is a man who falls on his back and breaks his nose.

My mother used to say, "He who angers you conquers you."

Most of my major disappointments have turned out to be blessings in disguise. So whenever anything bad does happen to me, I kind of sit back and feel, well, if I give this enough time, it'll turn out that this was good, so I shan't worry about it too much.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

You will never be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.

Life may be hard, but it's also wonderful.

I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.

He who limps still walks.

I have gout, asthma, and seven other maladies, but am otherwise very well.

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts-it's what you do with what you have left.

The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.