Quotes About Adversity

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Try to remember that being unsuccessful in school doesn't automatically mean you'll be unsuccessful in life. Lots of people who didn't excel in school still went on to have successful lives.

Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.

The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.

If you want to experience all of the successes and pleasure in life, you have to be willing to accept all the pain and failure that comes with it.

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

a setback is a setup for a comeback

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Often I have encountered in life that great disappointments have proved to be the road to future successes.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

Success is the ability to continue to move through total disaster.

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.

Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.