Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand.

I should only look back at moments that were disparaging, look down upon, negative for me - moments where I could learn something. And if I have been able to use that learning in future, then I am happy about it.

Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much.

Every pain is a lesson.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.

Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.

Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

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

Only fools need suffer to learn.

We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

I've learned that many of the worst things lead to the best things, that no great thing is achieved without a couple of bad, bad things on the way to them, and that the bad things that happen to you bring, in some cases, the good things.

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces.