The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.
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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
We all have our strengths and our failings.
Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.
Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.
Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.
Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.
Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.
If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
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