Famous Quotes & Sayings

That really came at the right time for us. We just haven't played real good baseball, and it's tough with a young club when you have adversity early.

David Oliver

It's nice because we've been dealing with this adversity the last couple of months. It's fun to play this way.

Each one is a new year. I'm just so happy for these kids because they've been through some adversity this year. But they kept a good work ethic.

Everyone contributed tonight. We fought through some adversity there, but guys filled in and we?re still alive.

Jason Giambi

Every New Yorker, they love to see somebody face adversity and still stand tall and not fall by the wayside. They like to see you man up and you take your beating, but you just keep going and ticking and keep working hard. And they love those stories. It's a tough town here, it really is, and a lot of players fall by the wayside out here.

Sydney Smith

A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the gods might look down with pleasure

William Shakespeare

A wretched soul bruised with adversity,We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;But were we burdened with like weight of pain,As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.

Joel Przybilla

As long as we come away with a victory, that's all that matters. We lost the past two games in the fourth quarter, and tonight we almost let one slip away. ... No matter what adversity hits us, we've just got to keep on playing.

That's impressive especially with how young this team is and how much adversity they have faced.

Billy Donovan

Everybody was worried about the adversity he was going to face if he didn't make shots. We didn't know the adversity was riding a bike.

Everyone took that game and realized we had to overcome some adversity. We were we 1-1 in the conference. Anything could have happened since then, but we managed to take it one game at a time and finish the first half 6-1.

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.

Horace

A good resolve will make any port.

Horace

In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

Horace

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

Horace

Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.

Horace

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

Herbert Spencer

Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. [Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospere et s'aigrit dans l'adversite.]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.

Jennifer Egan

I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.

Jean de La Fontaine

Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.

Jerome K. Jerome

When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.

James Agee

It's kind of a test, Mary, and it's the only kind that amounts to anything. When something rotten like this happens, then you have your choice. You start to really be alive, or you start to die. That's all.

Gao Xingjian

Everyone has to have either this or that problem, if he can't find any problem, he loses all reason for living.

Jason Kilar

Take risks. Fail. Pick yourself back up again. And always, always remember this: there is no adversity capable of stopping you once the choice to persevere is made.

Hillary Clinton

No human being is immune to adversity or personal setbacks.

Esther Hicks

When you take the problems of the world on your shoulders, your body doesn't feel good. It's just that simple. Leave the problems of the world to the individual problem-makers of the world, and you be the joy-seeker that you are.

Esther Hicks

Stop telling it like it is and start telling it like you WANT it to be!

Gideon Gono

This is the darkest hour before dawn and we should never underestimate monetary authorities' ability to deal with the adversity.

Hosea Ballou

Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.