Adversity Breeds Strength Quotes

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.

From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly, so that you will come to know the value of justice. I hope that you will suffer betrayal because that will teach you the importance of loyalty. Sorry to say, but I hope you will be lonely from time to time so that you don’t take friends for granted. I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either. And when you lose, as you will from time to time, I hope every now and then, your opponent will gloat over your failure. It is a way for you to understand the importance of sportsmanship. I hope you’ll be ignored so you know the importance of listening to others, and I hope you will have just enough pain to learn compassion. Whether I wish these things or not, they’re going to happen. And whether you benefit from them or not will depend upon your ability to see the message in your misfortunes.

As much as I disliked it, my brothers used to whoop me every day, but I have a feeling that I'm probably a stronger man today because of it.

I wouldn't take any of my injuries back; I feel like I'm stronger as an athlete because of all those setbacks.

Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better.

I quite like that jeopardy, those up-against-the-wall odds. I don't like it when it's over-comfortable, too easy, something that can be done in two or three weeks. I like a challenge.

I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger.

Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.

Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.

Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.

I'm not a pretty boy who came to town and burst out of the gate, which is a good thing, because if I was, I probably wouldn't have been good enough then. I probably wouldn't have lasted. So I was very lucky not to be pretty.

I had to get beat to understand how to win.

For every level there’s another Devil.

Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.

If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.

Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

All this pain is going to come back and make me stronger.

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.