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.

  

  Tacitus
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Adversity

• Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Great
  • Man
  • Words

• Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

  

  Lactantius
  • Age
  • Memory
  • Adversity

• Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Adversity
  • Prosperity

• 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.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Up
  • God
  • Night

• 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.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Wish
  • Adversity
  • I Wish

• If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

  

  Anne Bradstreet
  • Spring
  • Winter
  • Adversity

• Back, n. That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Friend
  • 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.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Road
  • Poverty
  • Financial

• The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • World
  • Great
  • Adversity

• You're going to face adversity. It's not if - it's when.

  

  Andre Ward
  • Adversity

• Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.

  

  Periander
  • Adversity

• People can grow from adversity as much as they do from prosperity.

  

  Andrew Yan
  • People
  • Adversity

• 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.

  

  James Keller
  • Up
  • Long
  • Wall

• I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.

  

  Paula Cole
  • Success
  • Adversity

• 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.

  

  Brett Favre
  • Up
  • She
  • Adversity

• I'm not fearful for myself, because I've seen adversity, and I can see it again. But I feel very upset and anguished when I see images of young lawyers beaten up.

  

  Asma Jahangir
  • Up
  • Adversity

• Adversity creates comedy.

  

  Darren Star
  • Comedy
  • Adversity

• 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.

  

  Arthur Golden
  • Strong
  • Wind
  • Tears

• He viewed humour as a relaxing introduction to many situations. 'It is, of course, completely inappropriate in some... but in the end, you know, if you were serious in this job you'd go mad.'

  

  David Lange
  • Job
  • Serious
  • Mad

• I'm so glad I didn't die on the various occasions I have earnestly wished I might, for I would have missed a lot of lovely weather.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Weather
  • Glad
  • Occasions

• Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

  

  Bruce Babbitt
  • Up

• People also respected my culinary acumen and my intelligence, and that was their whole thing. They flew me over, and it was this immersive experience.

  

  Adam Richman
  • People
  • Experience
  • Whole

• I don't know, you go through what you go through. You handle adversity, and I think it made me hungrier.

  

  Rajon Rondo
  • Adversity