Quotes About Adversity

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

Success by its very nature demands a period of overcoming, a process by which we become strong in broken places.

Success lies in the opposite direction of the normal pull.

When we have public success we also have private struggles.

It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.

Don't let failure go to your heart, and don't let success go to your head.

Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Don't be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the 'Kite' of success generally rises AGAINST the wind of Adversity, not with it.

As you go along your own road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance... But no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still and persevere.

Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.

If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.

It is the individual's ability to deal with the unexpected that characterizes the difference between success and failure.

I try to take it one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.

If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

Success is ninety-nine percent failure.

...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it's all a question of balance.

Success will smile at the man who refuses to lie down at the corridor of failure.

Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life, but what we do about what happens to us.