In so many things, growth comes from adversity.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
I try not to get too low. I fight adversity as hard as I can fight it, not to get too low. When good things happen, I don’t really embrace it. I just say it’s a lucky day.
I want to be a role model and I want to show kids that you can be strong and overcome adversity.
You show me anybody that’s great in anything they do, I’ll show you somebody that’s persevered, demonstrated that mental toughness to overcome some obstacles and adversity.
Every superstar in this league, if you don’t go through adversity, if you try to duck and dodge it, it’s gonna damper your team.
Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.
I spent a long time reporting on trans issues, and I know in the course of that reporting I saw how deeply adversity runs.
People that are brilliant and successful, we think they’ve just always been that way. That’s not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It’s prepared them. I’ve never felt like you could develop character without adversity.
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
I get Tweets every day from people telling me that ‘Hey, I’m going to overcome my injury or my illness. Cancer. Different diseases. I can beat it because Adrian Peterson showed me the determination and the willpower to be able to prosper and get through adversity whenever it comes.’
Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
When I say ‘fighter,’ I am thinking about how you deal with adversity, how you deal with being in bad situations.
You learn about people when they do go through a little bit of adversity.
You can all get what you want to get, and so my journey was to show you how many times along the way adversity has stared me right in the face, and I’ve looked it right back and said, ‘No.’
As a kid, growing up, as far as I was concerned, I was Luke Skywalker. Any sort of small victory or any adversity I would come up against at school, I was like, ‘How would Luke Skywalker deal with this?’ Everybody was the Empire; anybody who bullied me at school was the Empire.
My strength comes from my mom. Just seeing what she had to go through to raise us, she wouldn’t make excuses; she wouldn’t put her head down. So I guess I looked at adversity right in the eye and took it on.
I was just proud of myself that, even under extreme stress and adversity, I was still able to do my job and do it well. And still able to earn an income while in prison.
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
I just want to share with everyone that no matter what challenges, adversities you face in life, that you can overcome them… and once you overcome those adversities, use your story, your testimony to others, to help others get through their storm.
I try to be the same guy every day, no matter the situation, no matter the adversity.
When adversity strikes, that’s when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.
Two of the biggest things my mom taught me is that adversity isn’t the end of the world and that you have to adapt to succeed.
I know something about adversity.
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
I do believe that ‘Aljo’ could be world champion. If you look at the fighters he’s faced and beaten, they’re high caliber people. He’s also faced and overcome adversity, including back-to-back losses in fights he could have won.
Part of what makes college football great is what you learn playing it. Being selfless, learning how to go through adversity as a group, learning about perseverance.
I think that everything you do helps you to write if you’re a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don’t experience either one of those, you’re being deprived of something.
I think we build resilience to prepare for whatever adversity we’ll face. And we all face some adversity – we’re all living some form of Option B.
Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
I kind of almost get enjoyment out of adversity in life.
I’m somebody who finds adversity is almost as good as encouragement. It’s almost like, you close the door, and I’ll find ten ways to kick it in and go around it or dig under it or something.
It is definitely true that adversity and hardship are not evenly distributed.
I thrive on adversity.
I’ve been through so much damn adversity, I’ve had so much critiqued on me. From being the undefeated world champion to never really getting the love or the respect I feel I deserved when I was on top and then finally getting knocked down and then everybody jumping on top, trying to kick me while I was down.
You’ve got to deal with adversity throughout the season, whether it’s injuries, losing a game where you don’t play well.
Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
I didn’t care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
I’ve dealt with a lot of adversity and came out a stronger person.
Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity… they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.
If you are lucky enough to never experience any sort of adversity, we won’t know how resilient you are. It’s only when you’re faced with obstacles, stress, and other environmental threats that resilience, or the lack of it, emerges: Do you succumb or do you surmount?
I am so much more than what happened to me. I’m a mother and a businesswoman; I run a charity that supports others overcoming adversity; and, most importantly, I’m happy.
I don’t think you can create culture and develop core values during great times. I think it’s when the company faces adversity of extraordinary proportions, when there’s no reason for the company to survive, when you’re looking at incredible odds – that’s when culture is developed, character is developed.
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
I don’t want to sound Pollyannish about this. I understand that poverty is never just poverty. It’s often this collection of maladies, this compounded adversity. I’m not naive about the problem. But I think that stable, steady housing is one of the surest footholds we could have on the road to financial stability.
The Chinese nation is a great nation; it has been through hardships and adversity but remains indomitable.
We try 100% every single week to do the best job we can, but we always seem to find 10 more percent when we’re faced with adversity.
Celebrate creativity and confidence in the face of adversity.
For me, football is a quest. Quests entail overcoming hardship, trials of adversity in the pursuit of true joy.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
There is in every true woman’s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Obviously, resilience matters. I was no stranger to adversity, but it’s different when it’s personal. Not something I would recommend.
I’ve dealt with adversity before, had injuries before. I didn’t let that slow me down. It just changed my attitude about the game.
I think of emotional well-being as a resource within each of us that allows us to do more and to perform better. That doesn’t mean just the absence of mental illness. It’s the presence of positive emotions that allows us to be resilient in the face of adversity.
You face distractions, you face adversity in life and you have to be able to handle it, you have to be able to fight through it and become a better man and become a better player because of it.
