Robert Jordan Quotes

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

When you experience difficulty at work or in your life, instead of looking back on it as something that was really challenging, look at it and ask yourself, 'What wisdom did I learn from that?'

Life is not about gutting out every situation. It's about identifying opportunity or the lack thereof. If your pride is all that is standing in the way of quitting, quit. The right people won't care and the wrong people don't matter. If you know you're on the right path, persevere though the pain. It will be worth it.

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.

The journey is never ending. There's always gonna be growth, improvement, adversity; you just gotta take it all in and do what's right, continue to grow, continue to live in the moment.

Everything don't work out for the best. You have to use a lot of those things as lessons in order to build yourself up.

Now I am seen as a successful cricketer, but the fact is that I have had more failure than success.

Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

There are some things you can only learn in a storm.

Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

Even the hard times are part of your life story. If you acknowledge them and move past them, they eventually add up to the experience that makes you wise.

Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with valuable lessons designed just for you and only you. Suffering is imposed on us time and again so that one day we would become brave wise masters. That is, a strong being who is confidently aware of their intended direction in life, and fearlessly adding value to the world and their future.

I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.