Quotes about Adversity
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.
— Rick Warren
Too many times we're looking for ways to get around deep waters and dangerous fires, rather than through them. Has this ever been your experience?
— James MacDonald
Never worry about anything that is past. Charge it up to experience and forget the trouble. There are always plenty of troubles ahead, so don't turn and look back on any behind you.
— Herbert Hoover
You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.
— Tina Fey
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.
— Maya Angelou
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I try to learn from every experience, good or bad.
— Tim Tebow
My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.
— Mark Twain
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
— Donald Trump
Failure is not an option. Failure is necessary...We try. We fail. We learn. We adjust.
— Craig Groeschel
Failure is not important, how you overcome it is.
— Nick Vujicic
Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
— John Ortberg