Quotes About Adversity

Never be put off by anything because failure teaches you something.

You're never a failure until you fail to get up.

Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.

I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned from making mistakes.

There is a vast difference between failure and temporary defeat.

If you want to know who your friends are, have a major failure.

it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.

Growth always involves the risk of failure.

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.

The only way to combat failure is to see it as an opportunity to improve your direction.

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It's not optional.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical

I consider failures to be the compost that feeds the better and best that is on its way.

Failure is the chance to do it better next time.

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow's entrepreneurs.

You learn an enormous lot through failure.

To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

I will work day and night to avoid failure, but if I can't, I'll pick myself up the next day. The most important thing for entrepreneurs is not to be put off by failure.

We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.