Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

To be honest, whatever troubles I've had, I've also gotten the opportunities to do 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.

Often, bumpy roads lead to beautiful places.

I'm so grateful for everything I went through. We learn from the hardships.

Everything good that has happened to me has happened as a direct result of something bad.

Things that seem bad at the time are really blessings.

Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.

Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later.

In our culture, I feel like everyone just wants the good life, the dream life, but I'm learning to embrace suffering because with suffering there's so much good that comes out of it.

To be able to go through what I've gone through and still be fortunate before the age of 40 to still be here to be offensive coordinator with Coach Saban at Alabama, you take some time to reflect on that.

I'm appreciative of things going wrong. At first it sounds crazy, but how boring would life be if you just coasted along without any challenges? Without learning about who you really are through the process of going through the darker times? Without feeling the sense of elation when you reach even a small stepping stone?

I knew two things from my father: keep working hard, stay humble, and someday you'll be OK.

I can't help but be thankful, and really appreciate everything I have been through, good and bad, because it got me here!

There's a blessing in everything that happens to us.

I've been blessed; I've been getting so many amazing opportunities because of the UFC. I know there are going to be haters no matter how successful I am, and I just have to be thankful for all the blessings that I have because all of it can be over before you know it.

I was fortunate enough to have a situation in my life where everything did shake out and hit rock bottom, and I did see who was standing there and really saw who had my back for real.

I think everything bad that happens can be good in a way, if you're thinking about it after a while.

I'm thankful for everything good and bad that happened to our band.

Everything in my life happened for a reason. Even when I thought they were the worst things in the world, they turned out to be the best things in the world.

The universe works in crazy ways. Your good luck will come in waves, and so does your bad, so you have to take the good with the bad and press forward.