Quotes About Adversity

Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools - but they must be kept to a minimum.

Learning from my mistakes at the same time being criticized by Triple H and Ric Flair made me what I am today.

Crippled but free, I was blind all the time I was learning to see.

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.

Do not let adversity break you. Think of it as a learning experience that will make you stronger.

A student's mentality in learning martial arts is to overcome one's problems.

Learning to expect problems saved me from a lot of wasted energy. Winners see problems as just another way to prove themselves.

As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame but for learning

the final lesson of learning to be independent - widowhood ... is the hardest lesson of all.

Making mistakes and learning from them is crucial to winning.

It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

With every episode of struggle, there is a learning opportunity.

We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.

The ability to take misfortune and make something good come of it is a rare gift. Those who possess it are ..said to have resilience or courage.

Everybody has fallen down or been disappointed in love. Where you truly shine is when you get back up. Use it as a learning experience and believe in all of the possibilities.

I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble

I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

The best people know that there are two phases in every crisis: the one where you manage it and the other where you learn from it. To succeed you have to do both

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

Some things you can only learn in the struggle. When it's easy, when everything is going your way, that doesn't take any faith.