Quotes About Adversity

I have learned to not let a bad race or failure bring me down, and always walking away with something positive and learning from mistakes so I can be better or stronger next time.

I think it's only failure if you put the word failure on it. I think it's part of the process of learning where you're going to go and what doesn't work.

Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears.

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

View a stumbling block as a learning opportunity. If you allow it to defeat you, it will. Honestly, if I give everything I have, I can't be disappointed with the outcome.

There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

It's easy to be hard on ourselves, but the important thing is to turn a mistake into a learning experience.

I learned to embrace risk, as long as it was well thought out and, in a worst-case scenario, I'd still land on my feet.

Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

Having to know the answers puts in terrible positions from which to learn.

People learn from failure or from lack of success.

Every step that I've taken was a learning lesson. Even to not think you're so big and so bad you can't fall.

There is going to be a lot asked of me over the next few weeks but I am getting more experience now and learning all the time.

I worked for Harper's Bazaar. They fired me. I recommend that you all get fired; it's a great learning experience.

The only way to go beyond your fears is to grow beyond them and that always means challenging, overcoming and learning from them.

Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.

It is through suffering that learning comes.

Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?

Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.

I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems… or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable.

Learning not to crumple before these uncertainties fuels my resolve to print myself upon the texture of each day fully rather than forever.

In all of my fights, it is a learning experience. I would know afterwards what I need to improve on and what skills I need to maintain. This will make me a better fighter.

You see guys getting in trouble, but you also see the good in people. It's just a matter of always learning.

Floundering around, learning by doing but also by failing, is not only good but inevitable.