Quotes About Adversity

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.

Everything we experience-no matter how unpleasant-comes into our lives to teach us something.

To experience brokenness and humiliation all you have to do is lead.

I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I try to find the lesson within the experience.

Too many times we're looking for ways to get around deep waters and dangerous fires, rather than through them. Has this ever been your experience?

All experience is great providing you live through it. If it kills you, you've gone too far.

I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Sometimes you can learn, even from a bad experience. By coping you become stronger. The pain does not go away, but it becomes manageable.

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.

Never worry about anything that is past. Charge it up to experience and forget the trouble. There are always plenty of troubles ahead, so don't turn and look back on any behind you.

Toughness is a skill. I don't think we're all born tough. You learn about toughness through your experience.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.

The worst experience any majority can have is that you convene and you look around and nothing's ready to go.

When a bad experience happens, you just chalk it up to the great fact that you just got five more jokes in the show.

I look for lessons in every experience. It adds to my leadership abilities.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Blisters are a painful experience, but if you get enough blisters in the same place, they will eventually produce a callus. That is what we call maturity.

New things have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow.

You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.