Bill Parcells Quotes

The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

No man grows wise but he have his share of winters.

I've been around the league for a while. I know the business of the league. Some stuff, like my mom said, you let it roll off your back like water on a duck's back. You keep moving on.

I went through a lot, but as I went through it, I learned from the situations.

Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much.

But that's life. That's what you learn from; when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to think afterwards and not forget and never grow bitter.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

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.

I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.

As my father would have said, I went through the college of hard knocks.

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.

I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

I'm hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.

You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.

Tragedy makes you grow up.

The older you get, I have to say, the funnier you find life. That's the only way to go.