Jerry Reinsdorf Quotes

Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.

We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

Every burden is a blessing.

There's always going to be something positive that can come out of any negative situation.

Even challenges are beautiful opportunities in disguise.

The right attitude can transform a barrier into a blessing, an obstacle into an opportunity or a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

A tragedy can turn out to be our greatest good if we approach it in ways which we can grow.

Many of the good things would never have happened if the bad events hadn't happened first.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Good things are often birthed from adversity.

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.

Success is ... what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

A lot of life is about trying to turn bad experiences into something good. Usually if you work at it, you can figure out a way to do it. Even our worst misfortunes are gifts.

With every positive, there is a negative across the board in life. It's about choosing to see the positive and working with the negative.

Great leaders know that adversity produces the greatest opportunities in life.

Sometimes it takes an injury to get your chance.

There's a lot of growing you can have when you're in adversity, when you're in a losing situation.