Adversity as a Teacher Quotes

Nobody likes to fail but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.

It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror; and this cannot be without toil.

Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.

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

Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic.

I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other virtues I might never have known.

Our enemies are our greatest teachers.

Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with the challenge we need to develop tolerance, patience, and compassionthree virtues essential for building character, developing peace of mind, and bringing us true happiness.

From adversity we can learn the value of patience.

The enemy is a very good teacher.

I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity.

Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest.

Anything that becomes an obstacle in life is only an opportunity to learn and it's the same in any profession I think.

Adversity is a good school.

Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct. Within every setback or obstacle lie seeds of an equal or greater benefit or opportunity.

You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that's the truth.

There is no education like adversity.

My failures has helped me as much as my successes.

We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences. According to Shantideva, enemies are really good for us as we can learn a lot from them and build our inner strength.

Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.

I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe.

We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths.

Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

The fool learns by suffering.