Rajon Rondo Quotes
I don't know, you go through what you go through. You handle adversity, and I think it made me hungrier.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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Numerous have been the manifestations of God's providence in sustaining us. In the gloomy period of adversity, we have had 'our cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.' We have been reduced to distress, and the arm of Omnipotence has raised us up.
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I wish that only three residents of Tel Aviv could see what conditions on the West Bank are like. Living in such proximity, most Israelis have no idea about the adversity on the West Bank.
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Back, n. That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity.
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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.
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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
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People can grow from adversity as much as they do from prosperity.
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Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.
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I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.
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Initially, I know that I handled it worse than she did and I think partly because I've always been... every bit of adversity I've faced up until the last year and a half is adversity I brought upon myself - or the opposing teams have given me.
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Adversity creates comedy.
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It's always amazing when a fan will say you've helped them through some kind of adversity.
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In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
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I learned to put 100 percent into what you're doing. I learned about setting goals for yourself, knowing where you want to be and taking small steps toward those goals. I learned about adversity and how to get past it.
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Obviously, resilience matters. I was no stranger to adversity, but it's different when it's personal. Not something I would recommend.
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It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that 'The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.'
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The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its existence not suggest that economic adversity is the result of failures of individual character rather than the lingering after-effects of racial discrimination and a slave system that ceased to exist well over a century ago?
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
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I don't follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s.
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Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.
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I don't know, you go through what you go through. You handle adversity, and I think it made me hungrier.
