Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Bacon

More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

Francis Bacon

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

Francis Bacon

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."

Francis Bacon

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.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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.

George Santayana

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

George McGovern

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?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

George W. Bush

It is written that adversity introduces us to ourselves.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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.

Gary Player

That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

J. C. Ryle

Prosperity is a great mercy, but adversity is a greater one, if it brings us to Christ.

Challenges are part of life so you might as well learn how to conquer them.

By any means necessary. We overcame every obstacle and adversity the devil put in front of us.

But to be here and able to play for a championship and have a say when our last game is going to be means a adversity that we've faced. Coming here as freshmen, going through the sanctions and the injuries, everything. ... And for us to still be standing here and able to play for a championship at the end of it says a lot about who we are as people.

For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer. (Psalms 109:4)

Frederick William Robertson

As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men and nations are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity

He's such a wonderful witness to his peers and showed just how he was able to persevere under extreme conditions at the time. He viewed the adversity more as a challenge versus an obstacle. He was so courageous.

Jack Canfield

Do you realize that your life at this very moment is the result of everything that you have ever thought , done , believed , or felt up until now ? You can start right now to consciously and deliberately attract whatever you desire in this lifetime.

One of the things we've been after the guys about is the killer instinct and not letting adversity get them down.

My whole mentality was similar to the Tiger Woods approach. I had a lot of opportunities to jump in training and competition. I focused only on improving these skills. Adversity and racing gave me confidence to get through it.

With all the adversity that everybody in New Orleans has gone through, I'm thankful to the city of Lafayette for opening their arms up to this bowl and hosting this game. Because if those things don't happen, there are two teams that are at home today.

We got back to organizing things a little bit better. Sometimes, when adversity comes in a game, we kind of get away from what we're trying to do.

We have sort of a deeper bond that you really don't want people to share. Because in order for us to share that bond, we have to share a lot of the same misfortunes, a lot of the same walls of adversity we've had to climb. We've been forced to deal with a little more reality than any kid at that age should have to deal with.

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.

We had a lot of adversity this year. We met a lot of challenges this year, but we didn't meet this final one. We're very proud of the fact we've won 40 games in two years. We just skipped a lot of steps. We went from Step 1 to Step 10. Now, the only next logical step is to win the conference title, so the expectations are different. Everything was in place, and then the injuries came along.

It doesn't get much better than this. We've overcome a lot of adversity this season with injuries and to still be unbeaten at this point is a big accomplishment.

It doesn't help in practice when you don't have 10. We're dealing with adversity and it's a learning process.

John Tortorella

It has been a different year from the past two or three. I think we expected that: some things to not always be in place, some adversity coming to us. Our consistency on the ice in all aspects of the game hasn't always been there.