Twelve famous aphorisms about setbacks

1. Difficulties are those that bully the weak and fear the hard. The more you fear it, the more it intimidates you. The less you take it seriously, the more respectful it will be to you. ——Xuan Yongguang

2. Don’t be complacent because of luck, and don’t be depressed by bad luck. A truly strong person is good at finding shadows in good times, finding light in adversity, and always calibrating his goals. ——Ibsen

3. The knife is sharpened on the stone. The knife becomes faster and faster, and the stone becomes thinner and thinner. ——Mao Dun's "Two Sides of the Problem"

4. Suffering tempers some people and destroys others. ——Fuller

5. Every unfavorable mutation carries the same beneficial seeds. ——Emerson

6. What is failure? Failure is the first step to a better place. ——Phillips

7. It is just a fantasy to think that it will always be smooth sailing and success will be easy without going through hardships and twists and exerting great efforts. ——Mao Zedong

8. Failure is also what I need. It is as valuable to me as success. ——Edison

9. People have to go through some hardships to become talented. ——Finnish proverb

10. Adversity and hardship are the highest schools for tempering one’s character. -----Liang Qichao

11. For those who persevere, there is no such thing as failure. ——Bismarck

12. Even if you fall a hundred times, you must stand up a hundred and one times. ——Zhang Haidi

13. No matter when, no matter what, I will never allow myself to be a little bit discouraged. ——Edison

14. Wise people will never sit down and lament over failure, they must be optimistic about finding ways to save it

15. Suffering is the teacher of life, through suffering , toward joy. ——Beethoven

16. God sets many obstacles on our way just to strengthen our will. ——Tagore

17. Difficulties that have been overcome are opportunities for victory. ——Churchill

18. Adversity and hardship are the highest schools for tempering personality. ——Liang Qichao

19. There are many thorns on the road of art, which is also a good thing. Most people are daunted, except those with strong will. ——Hugo

20. What is a road? That is to say, it is trampled out of places where there are no roads, and it is impossible to carve out places where there are only thorns. ——Lu Xun

21. Not being discouraged by defeat is victory.

22. Running water releases its vitality only when it encounters resistance. ——Goethe

23. Temporary defeat is much better than temporary victory. ——Abu Faraz

24. Steel is tempered in fierce fire and rapid cooling. That’s why you can be strong and fearless of anything. In this way, our generation has been tempered in struggles and terrible trials, and has learned not to surrender in the face of life. ——Ostrovsky

25. What we care about is not whether you fail, but whether you can have no complaints about failure. ——Lincoln

26. One of the great advantages of outstanding people is their perseverance in adverse and difficult encounters.

——Beethoven