Sam Harris Quotes

There's always going to be setbacks.

Do not bring me your successes; they weaken me. Bring me your problems; they strengthen me.

Obstacles are only opportunities to succeed or fail; how we handle them determines what will happen.

Sometimes you learn more from films that aren't terribly successful and, indeed, sometimes you learn more from real disasters than you do from the ones that succeed.

Everything's not going to go perfect. You're going to have some losses that you're going to have to bounce back from and some things that are a little unforeseen that you're going to have to deal with.

Setbacks are just learning experiences.

It seems the brighter you are, the deeper the hole you get into.

We've all got setbacks.

There's always going to be adversity.

I've had a lot of setbacks outside the ring.

There's always going to be bumps in the road. There's always going to be this and that, adversity. You just overcome it. It's what I've done all my life.

I could do nothing without my problems; they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.

Every solution of a problem is a new problem.

Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure.

The nature of process, to one degree or another, involves failure. You have at it. It doesn’t work. You keep pushing. It gets better. But it’s not good. It gets worse. You got at it again. Then you desperately stab at it, believing “this isn’t going to work.” And it does!

The only people without problems are those in cemeteries. It is not what happens to us that separates failures from successes. It is how we perceive and what we do about what happens that makes the difference.

When fate throws a dagger at you, there are ways to catch it. If you catch it by the blade, you can harm yourself. But if you catch it by the handle, you can use it to help you fight through the obstacles ahead.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them

If we don't give kids the opportunity to fail when they're growing up, and to fail productively, to fail creatively, that they're going to get out there into the world and they're going to hit some kind of setback, like everybody does, and they're going to get completely derailed.

My experience in Gujarat shows that howsoever big a problem might be, it is not insurmountable if we have the will to act.

We had some adverse conditions in the '60s, in the '70s and the '80s. The agency has risen above that in the past and will rise above that again.

Life is not about focusing on the obstacles. It's about how you handle them, and whether you get enlightenment or levity from the way you do it

It's not about how you are when things go well, what defines you is how you are when you fail from an obstacle.

Every time you quit, someone else gets your prize. Every time you make a mistake, you get closer to yours.

She thinks, I failed twice. If I failed twice I'm going to fail forever. No! That is not the law of life. If you failed twice that means you can learn. It's just a learning experience. It's an obstacle. An imaginary obstacle. She made it real. She made failing a journey of life... Instead do again and make a journey of your life.