Cesare Pavese Quotes

You have to fall. You have to understand what that feels like. For what I want in my life, and for where I want to go with this music, you gotta be humiliated, man. You gotta understand what that feels like. It just makes you stronger.

O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

One could draw up all different kinds of adversity depending on what your weakness is.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

As you wrestle with life... You're going to come out on the other end healed... I've fallen short sometimes, and I've risen pretty high a few times.

The human spirit is so resilient, and failure teaches you so much.

You have to experience and take defeat in any and all aspects of life so you can be better and stronger.

you never forget your first fall.

I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.

What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer.

In difficult times, we're not supposed to quit believing; we're not supposed to quit growing.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.

I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right.

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.