Quotes About Adversity

The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure.

Success in life is not how well we execute Plan A; it's how smoothly we cope with Plan B.

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.

I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years.

Life is not a success only journey.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing.

In sport, part of the game is accepting the umpire's call, no matter how hard that might be. Sometimes the calls go your way, and sometimes they don't.

Survival is triumph enough.

Success is never final, but failure can be.

You are not what has happened to you. You are what you choose to become.

Whatever brings you to your knees in weakness carries the greatest potential for your personal success and spiritual victory.

We cannot choose the things that will happen to us. But we can choose the attitude we will take toward anything that happens. Success or failure depends on your attitude.

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

With more success comes greater problems along with greater ability to solve them.

Failure has no friends.

The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure.

We either get success or lessons. If we learn our lessons successfully, we get both.

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

Success doesn't make you and failure doesn't break you.

Meet success like a gentleman; disaster like a man.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.