Learning from Adversity Quotes

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

Our enemies are our greatest teachers.

Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher.

Every pain is a lesson.

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

The struggle is what teaches you.

A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.

There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.

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.

The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.

But without painful experiences, we dont grow

I think the person who has had more experience of hardships can stand more firmly in the face of problems than the person who has never experienced suffering. From this angle then, some suffering can be a good lesson for life.

I feel like strength comes from within. And like everything that I am and experience make you strong. And I've been through so many things in my life and those things have taught me. I'm one of those girls, every experience, I learned from my experience.

From a very early time, I understood that I only learn from things I don't like.

I'm thankful for some of bad experiences I've had. They helped me with the way I view people and see them for who they really are.

You seek problems because you need their gifts.

The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems... There was a time when I thought it was a nuisance to be confronted with a problem. I tried to get rid of it. I tried to get somebody else to solve it for me. But that was a long time ago. It was a great day in my life when I discovered the wonderful purpose of problems. Yes, they have a wonderful purpose.

The poor have much to teach you. You have much to learn from them.

Everybody wants to reach the top of the mountain, but there is no growth at the peak. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life's next peak.

Being broke is a very efficient educational agency.

You know, that's the thing that people sometimes miss, is the fact that those moments when you're at your relatively speaking, lowest, are the times when you can learn the most.

Sometimes my life has been Odyssean - landing on strange islands of consciousness and reality and meeting very curious monsters who turn out to be very great teachers. Sometimes my life has been a quest for a grail of knowledge and education. Like Parsifal, my life has been a quest to pierce the veil, stumbling along but eventually finding it.

There are always lessons to be found in the darkest moments. It's a moral obligation to dig deep and find that little glimmer of hope or pearl of wisdom.

Somebody asked me if I could go back and start again with a different brain, would I. Years ago I thought yes, I would, and now I know I wouldn't. Because whatever challenges I had in school, I guess they forced me to where I am today. So I now see them as an asset.