Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm so proud of these kids. We've faced a lot of adversity this week.

I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man who had no feet.

Geno Auriemma

I never know what to think anymore. Last year we go up to Notre Dame and spank them all over the court and then they come here and beat us. But I do think when you go on the road and play really well, that's a good sign. That's a sign that you can handle adversity and focus on what you need to focus on.

I never pictured it when I signed my letter of intent. But I faced adversity and things happened. I just had to get over it and do what I had to do.

I'm very pleased that we've been able to go through as much adversity as we have and still be able to play as well as we have. That's what I'm impressed with.

Mike Holmgren

I'm very, very happy for Matt, and that is no secret. It's a good story to me because he overcame some adversity at the beginning of his career, and he played through some injuries. He's a mentally tough guy. Like all of us, there's a period of becoming a little more humble and then kind of coming out of it and going.

In the hour of adversity be not without hope For crystal rain falls from black clouds

I just think the overall group has come together. The attitude was terrific fighting through adversity. We have great senior leadership, certainly with the five senior captains. They stayed patient and allowed these young guys to come along.

I just reminded them to not feel sorry for themselves, they are going to get tired a little quicker. The adversity just brings a close-knit team even more together. They realized it was going to take each and every one of the 12 players to get over the hump tonight.

Caron Butler

I just think that chemistry is always big, and once chemistry starts coming together, it's a beautiful thing. Now you're seeing it. We went through a lot of adversity after winning early on, and now we're starting to roll.

Bob Hartley

I really think that we changed the chemistry of the team. Sometimes it goes either way. For us it went the wrong way. You know what, I'd rather see this happen at this time of the year. Adversity makes people better.

I am so happy for this group of kids because of all of the adversity they have suffered throughout this year. They really pulled together, and it is just a special group. ... It's really tough to see them go.

John Piper

The deepest need that you and I have in weakness and adversity is not quick relief, but the well-grounded confidence that what is happening to us is part of the greatest purpose of God in the universe - the glorification of the grace and power of his Son - the grace and power that bore Him to the cross and kept him there until the work of love was done.

Tom Cochrane

Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.

Rajneesh

The past is not clinging to you; YOU are clinging to the past. Once you are not clinging, the past simply EVAPORATES!

Socrates

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Michelle Waterson

Through adversity we find our better self.

Theodore Roosevelt

What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.

Theodore Roosevelt

We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.

Thabo Mbeki

Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not tested during the best of times,

Melissa Sue Anderson

Sandy deWitt at TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris in Johannesburg, South Africa, taught me to make a decision and stick with it. Every day we're faced with reasons why we shouldn't do good work: it's too scary, too hard to pull off, there's no time, no money, etc. You have to be brave and commit to your choices in the face of adversity. If you waver, nothing will turn out the way you imagined it.

Michael Huffington

In so many things, growth comes from adversity.

Eric Hoffer

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

James Cook

Seeds sewn in adversity bear the greatest fruit.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Every moment of life brings an opportunity for being conscious of human feeling, in prosperity, in adversity, in all conditions. It costs very little; only a little thought is necessary. There is no greater religion than love. God is love; and the best form of love is to be conscientious regarding the feelings of those with whom we come in contact in everyday life.

Heather Mills

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.

Hector Hugh Munro

The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.

Pat Riley

In every adversity, there is a seed of equivalent benefit.

Pat Riley

We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths.

Plato

He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.

Paula Cole

I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success

Martin Seligman

It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES.

In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.