Quotes about adversity
adversity people would-be
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. Socrates
adversity mma ufc
Through adversity we find our better self. Michelle Waterson
adversity desire ruins
It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins. Norm MacDonald
adversity evil suffering
In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape. Norm MacDonald
adversity mma average
I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average. Mike Tyson
adversity deals i-can
I can deal with adversity. Mike Tyson
adversity order sometimes
Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right. Sherrilyn Kenyon
adversity men two
There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men. Nicolas Chamfort
adversity fate self
Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others for your fate, even if they deserve blame. Never exhibit any self-pity. Do not complain. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
adversity despair places-to-go
Despair is anger with no place to go. Mignon McLaughlin
adversity stronger way
Why do we dread adversity when we know that facing it is the only way to become stronger, smarter, better? John Wooden
adversity
We must be challenged to improve, and adversity is the challenger. John Wooden
adversity doors imperfect-world
You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut. Maxwell Maltz
adversity men people
Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger. Max Cleland
adversity benefits seeds
In every adversity, there is a seed of equivalent benefit. Pat Riley
adversity needs depth
We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths. Pat Riley
adversity want helping
He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity. Plato
adversity difficult-situations accepting
I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success Paula Cole
adversity thinking focus
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. Martin Seligman
adversity heart tree
The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened. Philip Sidney
adversity long laughing
You could cry, get worried or angry like any other normal human being, as long as you remembered that, up above, your spirit was laughing out loud at all those thorny situations. Paulo Coelho
adversity dark clouds
Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass. Marianne Williamson
adversity opportunity choices
We have a lot of choice about whether to interpret something as adversity or as opportunity. I see in myself the tendency at times to make situations worse than they have to be because of my catastrophic interpretation. Marianne Williamson
adversity long gone
Adversity can strengthen us if it does not go on too long. Mason Cooley
adversity problem grew
Things grew and lived in constant adversity, ingenious in solving problems of existence. Mary Astor
adversity challenges self-improvement
Adversity challenges the masks we hide behind, revealing sides of ourselves we have not yet comfortably with the world outside. It is why we dislike adversity, because we have to face what we don't yet understand about ourselves. Michael Arndt
adversity goal risk
I will guarantee you that the day you step outside your comfort zone by making success your goal is the day you discover that adversity, risk, and daring will make life sweeter than you ever imagined. Mark Burnett
adversity care
I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top. Ted Turner
adversity men practice
What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice. Theodore Roosevelt
adversity choices rust
We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out. Theodore Roosevelt
adversity people resilience
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, Thabo Mbeki
adversity decision brave
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. Melissa Sue Anderson
adversity believing bit came composure hang kept kids last lost proud row says second weeks
I'm just proud of our kids to hang in there and keep their composure through all that adversity. We lost it for a little bit there in the fourth, but kept believing and kept working. That says a lot about our kids. This is two weeks in a row where it came down to the last second and we got it done.