Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daphne du Maurier

I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.

We overscheduled ourselves, given the youth of our team. I've been proud of our women. They've responded well to adversity. I think we're going in the right direction.

Orson Scott Card

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

Eddie Jordan

We were not competing in the paint, and we are getting distracted a little bit by what's going on out on the floor, not getting through a little bit of adversity whether you think it's a bad call or good defense against you. But for the most part they just outplayed us, and they deserved to win.

Confucius

Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity.

Confucius

Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.

Confucius

Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it.

We really came together and played as a team. Everybody had energy from one on down to 13. Sometimes it takes adversity for you to get in the right frame of mind.

Ann Voskamp

When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.

Albert Bandura

By sticking it out through tough times, people emerge from adversity with a stronger sense of efficacy.

Albert Ellis

So I'd better stop my whining and help myself cope better with even the worst Adversities.

We have an opportunity of a lifetime: Out of adversity to create a school system that would be the envy of people around the country.

We fought through adversity all season long. We've come from behind. We can do it all.

William Shakespeare

Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have.

William Shakespeare

He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity.

William Shakespeare

Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse.

Aeschylus

Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another.

Aeschylus

The reward of suffering is experience

Adrian Peterson

Adversity makes me hungrier. I thrive on being able to make a way out of No Way.

Samuel Daniel

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

Alexandre Dumas

The hungry men were seen, followed by their valets, roaming the quais and guards' quarters; gleaning from their outside friends all the dinners they could find; for, according to Aramis, in prosperity one should sow meals right and left, in order to harvest some in adversity.

Aaron Schock

I also know that every person faces adversity in life. Abraham Lincoln held this seat in Congress in one term. But few faced as many defeats in his personal, business and public life as he did,

Charlotte Bronte

Adversity is a good school.

Ben Howland

That's a very important win we got tonight. It's a credit for these kids to handle any adversity.

Casey Blake

We need to remember the adversity that we overcame this year. Hopefully, that will help us the next five games.

I thought he won the fight. I just knew that the cuts were going to make the fight more difficult. Now, we don't have the Monty we usually see. But he showed he can go through adversity and still come out and be a world-title holder.

Ella Wilcox

It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Man, I'm willing to do anything that will help. I haven't been through something like this my whole career.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.

We'll adapt. We always tell our guys they need to be able to handle any and all adversity, so that fits right into that light.

We have some momentum on our side, definitely. I think the biggest thing is that we know we can kind of push through some things and come through a lot of adversity and count on each other. So I think that's something that's really important going into the tournament.

We played some good teams here, but nothing of the caliber we're going to see next week. It was good for us to face adversity a little bit. It might be a good thing for us heading into Kentucky .

We handled adversity well last week. Now we find out how we handle success. Some teams don?t handle it too well.