Quotes About Adversity

Reconcile the loss of the painting - no matter how many times it may happen - with the joy of beginning again.

Failure makes excuses. Success just keeps swinging the bat.

Failure can either be a stepping stone to success or a stumbling to defeat.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

I wouldn't have been what you'd call a champion if I had accepted failure when it first came, if I had looked at it and said, 'Well, that's it.'

Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews, and far-reaching intellects.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure.

What the world calls failure, I call learning.

You can't succeed unless you've got failure, especially creatively.

Failure and setbacks and struggles are where all the good stuff happens.

Failures lies concealed in every success in every failure.

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat But to lie there - that's a disgrace.

Failure is not fatal. Only failure to get back up is.

The path to truly new, never-been-done-before things always has failure along the way.

Failure in school does not mean failure in Iife.

Failure is not an option. Failure is a prerequisite.

Failure is not falling down but staying down.

Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.

You cannot grow and expand your capabilities without running the risk of failure.

Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.

Achievers rarely, if ever, see a problem as permanent,while those who fail see even the smallest problems as permanent

Failure either breaks people or it makes them succeed.

You have to be free to fail in this world.