William Hazlitt Quotes

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

I've learned that many of the worst things lead to the best things, that no great thing is achieved without a couple of bad, bad things on the way to them, and that the bad things that happen to you bring, in some cases, the good things.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Deprivation sometimes can be one of the most marvelous teachers.

You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Hard times always lead to something great.

But at the end of the day, every star, every person that been iconic, has gone through a time in their lives where it was just bad. Everybody. It just made them better.

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser and happier as a result.

I think a person's true worth is measured during times of failure.

Losing makes you strong.

I went through a lot, but as I went through it, I learned from the situations.

I don't define myself by my successes. I define myself by adversity and how I've persevered.

Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much.

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.

Prosperity has no power over adversity.

It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

You don't get character because you're successful; you build character because of the hardships you face.