learning from challenges Quotes

You’ll fail at some things, that’s a learning experience that you need so that you can take that on to the next experience... What you learn from those challenges and those failures are what will get you past the next ones... I was the pretty consistent bull and the cheerleader on eBay actually.

Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.

The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned.

There's a lesson to be learned out of everything we go through in life.

My enemy is my greatest teacher.

Each disaster became a steppingstone for growth.

Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we're down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.

Embrace struggle... It is your greatest teacher.

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. To me, it always seemed that the solution had to be wisdom. You did not refuse to look at danger, rather you learned how to handle it safely.

If you utilize obstacles properly, then they strengthen your courage, and they also give you more intelligence, more wisdom.

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

There's always a positive to those negative times, because you come out of it so much stronger and wiser. Strength comes from every hardship, and it's been a lesson for me.

Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.

Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks

I now know that I learn by solving problems as they arise. Rarely do we learn significant lessons, or significantly improve, any other way.

If we run a hundred miles an hour to the other end of the continent in order to get away from the obstacle, we find the very same problem waiting for us when we arrive. It just keeps returning with new names, forms, manifestations until we learn whatever it has to teach us about where we are separating ourselves from reality, how we are pulling back instead of opening up, closing down instead of allowing ourselves to experience fully whatever we encounter, without hesitating or retreating into ourselves.

If you don't have a test, you won't be able to have a testimony.

Remind yourself that problems come not to obstruct, but to instruct.

I believe that crisis really tends to help develop the characer of an organisation.

Be grateful for challenges because... Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then [each woman and] man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilisation and mental culture.

I'm making progress if today's problems are different from yesterday's.

One of the advantages of having lived a long time is that you can often remember when you had it worse. I am grateful to have lived long enough to have known some of the blessings of adversity.

Life is a school and problems are the curriculum.

Our struggles are the short term lessons we learn to achieve long term success.