Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Not all storms come to disrupt your life. Some come to clear your path.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

There is no education like adversity.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.

Defeat is a state of mind. You are defeated only when you accept defeat, and assume the hopeless mindset of a defeated person.

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.