Quotes about adversity
adversity against competition face goes grow handle men season team time wilt
It's time for our team to grow as young men or wilt against better competition. We're going to face some adversity as this season goes along. Time will tell how we handle it.
adversity beyond body great minutes playing push wants yourselves
It was 53 minutes of playing great hockey. You have to find a way to push yourselves when adversity strikes. Sometimes you've got to push your body beyond what it wants to do. Marc Crawford
adversity challenges despair
The first question to be answered by any individual or any social group, facing a hazardous situation, is whether the crisis is to be met as a challenge to strength or as an occasion for despair. Harry Emerson Fosdick
adversity character testing
What a testing of character adversity is.
adversity may littles
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.
adversity port resolve
A good resolve will make any port. Horace
adversity challenges mind
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
adversity genius prosperity
As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it
adversity genius fortune
Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.
adversity heart good-times
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
adversity heart men
Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
adversity opportunity giving
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
adversity distress hard
Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress. Herbert Spencer
adversity sleep wake-up
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
adversity sleep wake-up
Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.
adversity resistance persons
I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance. Jennifer Egan
adversity thinking choices
You are the one who must decide whose thoughts you will entertain. You are free to choose-but you are not free to alter the consequences of those choices. You will be what you think about what you consistently allow to occupy the stage of your mind. Ezra Taft Benson
adversity prosperity shows
It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends. Euripides
adversity certain mess
I bring to my life a certain amount of mess. Francis Ford Coppola
adversity blessing christian-inspirational
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. Francis Bacon
adversity men danger
More dangers have deceived men than forced them.
adversity vices prosperity
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
adversity speech prosperity
It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."
adversity odor vices
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
adversity mma champion
Any true champion can bounce back. That's what being a champion is: being able to deal with adversity and being able to bounce back. Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
adversity men fire
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. George Santayana
adversity men america
When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, "Can we stand anything else? George McGovern
adversity men wind
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. Jerome K. Jerome
adversity choices rotten
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. James Agee
adversity thinking evil
For God's love, take things patiently, have sense, Think! We are prisoners and shall always be. Fortune has given us this adversity, Some wicked planetary dispensation, Some Saturn's trick or evil constellation Has given us this, and Heaven, though we had sworn The contrary, so stood when we were born. We must endure it, that's the long and short. Geoffrey Chaucer
adversity loss discipline
That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,. Gary Player
adversity affliction wheat
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
adversity introducing written
It is written that adversity introduces us to ourselves. George W. Bush