Quotes About Adversity

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.

Courage isn't something you are born with. It comes to you with experience.

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.

I try to keep myself grounded and to stay true to who I am through every experience, positive or negative.

Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Big-picture thinkers broaden their outlook by striving to learn from every experience. They don't rest on their successes, they learn from them.

[Visiting Richard Nixon] useful only to me. The experience taught me that when people do something against you, that something always turns out in your favor.

Peace isn't an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it's an experience that's expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.

We showed why road games have been tough for us throughout this year. That's where we've got to get better. It's a learning experience.

I feel that right from the start the players were prepared to experience catastrophic results with comments like: 'It's going to be tough and we are going to need time'.

I think pressure is a good thing and it's good to be able to feel it and use it and experience the feeling of it and especially if you can get past it.

Actually, my experience over the past couple of years hasn't necessarily been something that would be interesting, were it committed to record.

Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience... It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.

It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down.

I try to learn from every experience, good or bad.

When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.

All actors should experience public failure.