Adversity Quotes
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It feels good when guys reach out to be inspired - and you have shown people an example of how you can come back and be better than you were before when adversity strikes; and when the world predicts the opposite, you show them you not only can be successful but be great.
Adrian Peterson -
I'd like to be able to do complex math in my head. Any kind of adversity and I become very anxious, but if you're a robot, you have good equilibrium. I wish I was cooler under pressure, like a robot.
Zach Woods
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People can grow from adversity as much as they do from prosperity.
Andrew Yan -
Things grew and lived in constant adversity, ingenious in solving problems of existence.
Mary Astor -
Behind every adversity - is an opportunity!
Napoleon Hill -
If you ask me why I've succeeded, it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds.
Brian McDermott -
I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.
John Hawley -
The Adversity Index was created by msnbc.com and Moody's Analytics to track the economic fortunes of states and metro areas. Each month, the Adversity Index uses government data on employment, industrial production, housing starts and home prices to label each area as expanding, at risk of recession, in recession or recovering.
Bill Dedman
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Whatever changes the new era brings, whatever new pathways we take, I am sure that our special relationship with America - forged in adversity, will not change.
Mary McAleese -
The journey is never ending. There's always gonna be growth, improvement, adversity; you just gotta take it all in and do what's right, continue to grow, continue to live in the moment.
Antonio Brown -
The meek are positive and often colorful characters. They are not self-assertive nor self-seeking, to be sure, but rather they are unselfish and uncomplaining, genuinely interested in the welfare of others, creating opportunities to be of service to them, submissive in the face of injuries and insults, silent in the accidents and adversities of life, and bearing with equanimity the infamies and injustices heaped upon them.
V. Raymond Edman -
Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what it's like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.
Arthur Ashe -
London is a great city full of amazing people from all backgrounds and when Londoners face adversity, we always pull together. We stand up for our values. And we show the world. We are the greatest city in the world.
Sadiq Khan -
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
John Wooden
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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca -
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon -
I definitely thrive off adversity. I know it's always up from there.
Caroline Buchanan -
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
Napoleon Hill -
When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.
Ambrose Bierce -
Adversity is an opportunity for growth. And an opportunity to really know who your friends are.
Megyn Kelly
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I think maybe there's a part of me that needs adversity from the rest of the world in order to feel motivated to want to prove people wrong. I need people to be like, 'What is this weirdo doing?'
Josh Klinghoffer Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Nevadans, and all Americans, are resilient. Overcoming adversity is a part of our national heritage.
Brian Sandoval -
I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.
Allen Klein -
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
Seneca the Younger