Quotes About Adversity

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.

It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory

If you # fail , learn. If you succeed, relish your # success . You can only know the sweet taste of # victory after many bitter struggles.

Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.

You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.

The highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who, out of these, wins the splendid ultimate triumph.

Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them.

It's impossible to fail completely and it's impossible to succeed perfectly.

I do not recognize these as defeats. They are but interesting experiences of life. They are valuable stepping stones to success.

Do you want to succeed? Then, double you rate of failure. Success lies on the far side of failure.

Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.

When you want to change things, you won't please everyone.

Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well.

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world.

When I came out of the Depression, I came out of it with a different point of view as to what constituted success. And that was even just even personal success.

There are some things you can't learn from others. You have to pass through the fire.

What's important is not the accolades and memories of success but the way you respond when opportunities are denied.

Success makes opportunities and so many of those "opportunities" are actually exemptions - from hardship, from unfriendliness, from struggle.

How can you truly know what success is, if you've never experienced failure?

Mistakes are the stepping stones to success.

If you want to be on top, you've got to have broad shoulders, because as fast as you get there, the faster they try to knock you down.