Quotes About Adversity

Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it.

Everyone we regard as brilliant has endured an enormous amount of failure.

Every conversation, every failure, every opportunity is a chance to get better. Starting today.

Failure comes when we don't get back up and try again.

There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure.

Embracing failure is the most important trait I've developed in my career. I have tried to learn from my failures, and I believe it has made me stronger, more confident and more resilient.

Failure is not important, how you overcome it is.

"Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.

This book is dedicated to all those who fell by the airside, for nothing is wasted, and every apparent failure is but a challenge to others.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.

Failure isn't a character quality. It's just an event. How you respond to failure is your character.

For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research.

I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.

Don't wallow in failure. Instead, learn from it.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

To put failure behind you, face up to it.

I'm inspired by failure. The process of defeat – picking yourself back up again is the hardest thing in the world.

In every failure lies the seeds of success.

Don't be so bitter about a bad experience from your past that you miss the opportunities in front of you.

It's not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate.

If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough.

Failure will hurt but not hinder us.