Quotes About Adversity

You can be on the right track and still get hit by a train!

The first rule of resilience: allow your present crisis to refine you, not define you.

Adversity presents itself in many forms.… If a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them. Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

We grow into our best selves not when we avoid our problems but rather when we embrace them and work through them to resolution.

Growing in resilience is the first important step in preparing for the issues you will face as a leader. Resilience will help you refine your calling as a leader and sustain leadership excellence.

Leaders are like trees. They need the winds of adversity and the pressure and challenge presented by crisis to sharpen their leadership skills. Our stormy times and even failures can strengthen our inner beings and cause us to fully mature and thrive.

Unexpected adversity is often painful yet crucial to the later success of a leader.

Henry Ford went broke five times, was accused of having poor judgment, but ultimately transformed the automobile industry.

resilience this way: the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.

A resilient leader bounces back from adversity better than he was before.

The way to succeed is to double your failure rate.

There is no loss without pain. Yet there is no change without loss.

Success is moving from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Failure offered me a better destiny.

The deepest and most significant growth comes through pain.

Storms often come with high stakes, so mishandling a crisis situation can have lifelong repercussions.

The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

A leader should always approach a crisis from the perspective that God has something to teach him or her. Adversity is a pathway to refinement.

I don't have the support inside Washington or even inside my own party.

Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregnable. Great presidents overcome great odds.

Sometimes you're trying your best and you still can't find a solution, but I try not to waste my life living in a dark place.

Ms. Oprah Winfrey gave me some advice to just always stay in the moment, and don't waste energy on negative things, and put your energy into positive things in your life. I just try to remember that every day and keep on going.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can't let our circumstances or what others do or don't do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

I don't worry about who they're putting in front of me. Why would I? That's just nonsense for me to waste my energy.