Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cassie Campbell

We were the favorites for a reason, and we showed exactly why. We faced much more adversity four years ago, but we were just as determined and just as focused this time. It's really even sweeter when you can come through as the favorite.

We were terrible tonight. We got outworked, and when they scored that first goal, mentally we got weak. We got down and I haven't really seen that from this team. It's a little adversity for us and that's good. They're a very good hockey team.

We've gone through so much adversity, but we knew if we played hard and played with heart that it would come together.

Henry Fielding

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.

Caron Butler

With the adversity I've been through in my life, he helped me through it. He's a great man. I'm just happy to be in the circle. I love you for that, coach.

Sara has battled through adversity and has provided our program with the passion that is needed to play at this level. She has left her mark on the program in the record books and will always be mentioned when people talk about the Virginia softball program.

Francis Bacon

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

Francis Bacon

Prosperity is not without many fears and distaste; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Francis Bacon

Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Put your greatest possession on the tallest shelf so if you fall you have something to reach for.

Rarely do you get dominated at home. I thought we looked frustrated and didn't respond well to adversity.

Don Davis

Randle El is that kind of guy. He poses a lot of those same kind of problems. (But) this team reacts well to adversity ... This special teams unit will get better.

Ron Wilson

The test was, could we handle the adversity in the second period and we did.

The thing that I am most proud about is the fact that this team has overcome such adversity and negativity. There we were, 10-6 and hearing all the negative talk and dealing with things we had dealt with all year, but these kids stayed together and now look at us, sectional champions.

Craig Biggio

It's a tough loss. We've been through a lot of adversity all season long. We've been able to bounce back and come back.

They're a good team. We knew that. I'm just proud of the way our kids handled the mental adversity that goes with the delay.

Abigail Adams

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.

The right destination can make any difficult journey bearable.

Michael Robinson

I told myself that, Mike, you can overcome adversity on the field, ... In the past when things didn't go right, I started to hang my head and it was like a snowball effect.

It's a huge game to beat Benton. It's a big rivalry. I get up for the Benton week. I think our kids do, maybe we do even more than the kids because we remember how it was years ago. I think it's still a big rivalry. We had a ton of adversity this week and our seniors really came together. We had a teammate (FCHS senior Wes Miller) who was in a coma in St. Louis. I had no idea how we were going to show up. We had some kids miss practice to go up there, and that's fantastic. They really stood by their fallen teammate. We've been preaching all week to come together as a team and I think we did tonight.

George Herbert

Every path hath a puddle.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

Jerry Bridges

I realize anew that, just as we must learn to obey God one choice at a time, we must also learn to trust God one circumstance at a time. Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will. I never feel like trusting God when adversity strikes, but I can choose to do so even when I don’t feel like it. That act of the will, though, must be based on belief, and belief must be based on truth.

Jerry Bridges

Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the promises of God and cling to them despite the adversity that at times seeks to overwhelms us.

Gloria Allred

Do not let adversity break you. Think of it as a learning experience that will make you stronger.

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?

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.

Andrew Shue

You're going to have to take a chance: you're going to have to reach out to touch people to make things happen. And it's not going to be easy, because there's going to be all kinds of adversity against you and people who are going to say things that make you feel like you aren't capable.

James Allen

Your difficulty is not contained, primarily, in the situation which gave rise to it, but in the mental state with which you regard that situation and which you bring to bear upon it.

Harvey Milk

Never take an elevator in city hall.