Growth Through Adversity Quotes

So, you've got a problem? That's good! Why? Because repeated victories over your problems are the rungs on your ladder of success. With each victory, you grow in wisdom, stature and experience. You become a better, bigger, more successful person each time you meet a problem and tackle and conquer it with a positive mental attitude.

All my successes have been built on my failures.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Failure's a natural part of life.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.

I've failed hundreds of thousands of times.

Adversity builds muscle. Adversity creates strength. Adversity, it turns out, is preparation for success.

The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

The pain and suffering that comes to us has a purpose in our lives-it is trying to teach us something. We should look for its lesson.

You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.

Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful with particular satisfaction. Indeed, I can say with complete truthfulness that everything I have learned in my seventy-five years in this world, everything that has truly enhanced and enlightened my existence, has been through affliction and not through happiness, whether pursued or attained

The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.

...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm.

There is a hidden blessing in the most traumatic things we go through in our lives. My brain always goes to, 'Where is the hidden blessing? What is my gift?'

If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is. Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities.

Only through suffering do we learn

A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time

Adversity in life teaches you.

If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.

It is through suffering that learning comes.

It is in falling down that we learn almost everything that matters spiritually.

I think love is one of those things that it's only really bad because it was once good. You can't miss something that was never amazing. So, what I've learned is that even if it ends badly, it's worth it if it made you feel something, if it taught you something.