Quotes About Adversity

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.

Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

To all the teachers that told me I'd never amount to nothing.

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

Your best teacher is the person offering you your greatest challenge.

Embrace struggle... It is your greatest teacher.

Your worst enemy is your best teacher.

Difficulties come into our lives to develop us. Every storm is a school. Every trial is a teacher. Every experience is an education.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later.

Learning is a gift, even if pain is the teacher

Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.

Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Enemies were teachers in disguise.

Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts.

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.

My teachers used to call me a failure

My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death.

Success is a poor teacher. We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don't be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the process of success. You cannot have success without failure.

I still remember when my teacher told me that football wouldn't give me anything to eat