Quotes About Adversity

Weather is a great metaphor for life sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella or choose to dance in the rain.

Life is all about dancing in the rain and creating your own rainbow.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Without failure there is no achievement.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

When you're down in the hole, when that moment comes, it's really okay to feel bad for a little while – give yourself time to mourn what you think you may have lost – but, then, here's the key: Learn from every mistake.

In a day when you don't come across any problems, you can be sure that you are travelling on a wrong path.

We can only learn to deal with failure by actually experiencing failure, by living through it. The earlier we face difficulties and drawbacks, the better prepared we are to deal with the inevitable obstacles along our path.

No garden is without its weeds.

I am a product of my failures.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no less of enthusiasm.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Life is a balance of fear and overcoming it.

You don't know what bravery is until you overcome fear.

For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.

"Success is like dealing with your kid or teaching your wife to drive. Sooner or later you'll end up in the police station."

Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse.

Thank you God for everything in my life. The good and the bad. Some were blessings and some were lessons.

God promises to make something good out of the storms that bring devastation to your life.