Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

This is exactly what we need to do, to have adversity and overcome it. This is big and it can set a tone. We didn't play our best game and maybe we shouldn't have been in that position to begin with, but to see them hang in there and come back is as important as anything that could have happened.

Ron Zook

The way we handle adversity is going to determine what kind of team we are. I told them last night that this is our first true test of adversity and how we bounce back, how we handle it, and how we compete against a good Iowa football team will determine what kind of football team we are, and where we are at.

This group of girls continues to show up and play hard in what has been an adversity filled season.

This game was actually a blessing in disguise for us. They came at us really hard. They're a well-coached team, and we had to deal with some adversity in that third period.

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

You're paid to do a job. You just have to block it out and focus on what you're doing. There's going to be adversity in anything. I had no problems focusing.

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.

Arthur Bloch

When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.

Branch Rickey

Problems are the price you pay for progress.

Boethius

In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.

Charles R. Swindoll

Adversity is a good test of our resiliency, our ability to cope, to stand back up, to recover from misfortune. Adversity is a painful pedagogue.

Antonio Porchia

Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.

Edmund Burke

Public calamity is a mighty leveller.

And we got together and said, 'Let's just push that to the side.' We had suspensions, other stuff. Sometimes adversity brings people closer together.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Oprah Winfrey

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

We do not respond well to adversity right now. Hopefully we can get better about that; get a little bit tougher mentally. From a basketball standpoint, we just have to take better shots and hit them.

We were emotionally up-and-down during the preseason. We started out 4-1 and felt really good, but then we ran into some adversity by losing four in a row. The girls started questioning themselves, and a lot of the freshmen thought they were going to be part of a successful team when they signed on.

Jack Chapman

We were down two points at the half and if you want to call it battling adversity, call it that because that's what we were able to do. Our defense was fantastic.

Ken Hitchcock

We've had to overcome adversity the whole season.

Hines Ward

We've had to come from behind and he's done that. He's done a great job of handling adversity, calming guys down, making little jokes in the huddle. That's just the way he is.

We've had a lot of adversity, and I think losing Tiffany was pretty much the final straw tonight. The one intangible that we've been missing with this team is they haven't understood how to stay connected with adversity.

Josh Smith

We've had a lot of adversity, a lot of stuff said about our team. We've got to ignore that stuff. Coach is a great coach and we hate to see him go down that path. We're trying to play as hard as we can to prevent that from happening.

Scott Sanders

We all have obstacles to overcome and while our life's journey may not be identical to Celie, I think that triumph over adversity and moving on and finding self-love and yourself and your voice is something that we all need to do. I didn't feel like it was a black story or a woman's story, I thought it was universal and always thought the story sang, that it had so much music in its soul.

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.