Quotes About Adversity

Failure is success training.

Everyone talks about success, but what happens before? There's always something you have to overcome.

There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

We must thank to all the failed people in the history as they showed us the true way to success!

Some people are allergic to your success. Such people...when you smile...they cry, and wish you were dead.

I wouldn't be where I am now if I didn't fail ... a lot. The good, the bad, it's all part of the success equation.

Success is beautiful and dangerous.

Success is failure inside out.

It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime.

It is not the circumstances that make a person a success. It is how that person responds to those circumstances

With success comes unhelpful criticism - ignore it.

Power is something that is not really visible. Some people have the power to rise above circumstance. Sociological factors and DNA are not all that determine success. It is power.

Even in success, you're going to be constantly rejected.

She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.

Political success is often dependent on the ability to be heard above the din of controversy and debate and to set a course with one's own compass.

Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as a writer.

Adversity is solitary, while prosperity dwells in a crowd

All the difficulties surrounding the making of Mars et Avril actually fueled its creativity and contributed to its international success!

One thing that was inspiring to me in my research about [Georgia] O'Keeffe was to learn that in addition to her success she had very hard times, and times when she was frustrated and uninspired.

PhD, MFA, self-taught - the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure, and success.

Absence of failure does not constitute success.

I think we impress people by our success, but I think we impact them by our failures.

You factor in racism as a reality and you keep moving.