Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it's always going to be the same.

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter.

Life comprises of both: opportunities as well as challenges.

I believe that if you acheive success, you will also experience failures in life.

I accept that it is not always moonshine and roses, and you can't expect things must always go your way.

I've had some unbelievable successes, and I've also learned painful lessons through failures so low I can hardly stand to think of them.

So - whatever happened to you?' 'Life. Life happened.

Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.

God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.

Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure.

You always come back to earth with a thump at some stage. Life has it's ups and downs; the acid test is how you handle the downs.

The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes.

This idea of perpetual happiness is crazy and overrated, because those dark moments fuel you for the next bright moments; each one helps you appreciate the other.

To me coming up short as a team and for me not having a great particular game was tough to swallow, but your life doesn't end there. You must put your life into perspective and keep moving on.

Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear.

Setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams.

I never thought I'd be successful. It seems in my own mind that in everything I've undertaken I've never quite made the mark. But I've always been able to put disappointments aside. Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.

Something's lost, but something's gained, in living everyday.

Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation for growth. Those who have fallen, failed or 'gone down' are the only ones who understand 'up.'

Where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.

You must learn to deal with the odd and even in life, as well as in figures.

Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

Life's greatest setbacks reveal life's biggest opportunities.