Quotes About Adversity

It's not your circumstances that shape you, it's how you react to your circumstances.

Turning a negative into a positive is an expressway to success.

Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.

They don't want you to win.

So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.

Your success, your life, your happiness. Don't let mean people bring that down.

You may think pain is a barricade to success, but it's usually a bridge.

As every cockroach knows, thriving on poisons is the secret of success.

99 percent of success is built on failure.

Each climber loses one finger or toe once in a while. This is a small but important reason for Polish climbers success. Western climbers haven't lost as many fingers or toes.

It is important to understand that if you do fall, it's important for you to get right back up again.

Success in never final; failure is never fatal

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

When someone pushes you down you must get up and stand on your own two feet even if your scared to do it. Only you can set limits to your success.

Our examples of enduring hardship are often more powerful than our stories of success and triumph.

I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.

The top is not forever. Either you walk down, or you are going to be kicked down.

Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes.

I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.