Quotes About Adversity

Success is how you bounce on the bottom.

May my haters live very long to see my continued success and make their lives miserable.

You have to honor failure, because failure is just the negative space around success.

Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.

Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.

Understand that a problem is only a problem if you choose to view it as a problem (vs. an opportunity).

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

Be grateful for your problems, for they stimulate an "I-can-solve-it" attitude.

"In Africa," S. B. once remarked, "if you do well, people close to you will hate you."

Somehow, when everything is too easy it's not necessarily the right recipe for success

Failure should never go to heart and success should never go to head, both makes a person to fall in life.

Sometimes, when a person gains a lot of success at a very young age, they become targets, and it's really easy to follow the crowds and not make independent decisions based on truly how you feel.

What doesn't kill me just makes me stronger

There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.

Failure is where success likes to hide in plain sight.

The difference between being a winner and being a loser is how you pick yourself up again, especially when you're down for the third or fourth or twentieth time!

The reason so many people fail to achieve success is because they fail to fail enough times.

Failures teach you. Success makes you arrogant

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

Success has made failures of many men.

If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor.