Quotes About Adversity

Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.

If you have high self-esteem, you might still know times of emotional suffering, but less often and with faster recovery-your resilience is greater.

Emotional roller coasters tend to emphasize the lows, tend to be more affected by the low, by the dip in an emotional roller coaster than when you are at the peak.

We learned to build our emotional muscles, helping us make it through major market falls and grind through the trying times without losing our equilibrium.

Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated.

The world laughed at any attempts we made to exist in it without pain.

A very large percentage of illnesses are the expressions of inadequate responses to the environment.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.

It's a great challenge to be better than your opportunities.

Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.

Blossoming out through one's comfort zone should be well meaning so as to achieve newer levels of excellence

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Every experience is a lesson. Every loss is a gain.

Don't be afraid to fail. Experience is just mistakes you don't make anymore.

It's not what you're faced with that's the problem, it's what you do with the situation. Your experience is not the important thing; what really matters is what you do with your experience.

The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.

If you learn from an experience, that's good - so nothing bad happened to you.

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.

It's not what happens to you, It's what you do about it.

Anyone can be happy when times are good; the richer experience is to be happy when times are not

I try not to have regrets and to learn from every experience.