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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?'

Quotes by Josh Trank

Of all the things people have taught me regarding life lessons or anything that would benefit me, I don't think anything helped me learn more about life than football. You go through so many different things: adversity, how to handle adversity, how to handle success, how to lead, how to be a teammate, how to communicate.

Quotes by Josh McDaniels

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Quotes by Josh Billings

In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser and happier as a result.

Quotes by Joseph B. Wirthlin

I am a quiet man who grows through adversity.

Quotes by Jose Maria Aznar

You do not want cricketers who are cowed by adversity, waiting for someone to tell them what to do.

Quotes by Jonathan Agnew

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Quotes by John Wooden

I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.

Quotes by John Hawley

Those with less of a sense of service to the nation never understand it when men and women of character step forward to look danger and adversity straight in the eye, refusing to blink, or give ground, even to their own deaths. The protected can't begin to understand the price paid so they and their families can sleep safe and free at night.

Quotes by John F. Kelly

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

Quotes by John F. Kennedy

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.

Quotes by John Churton Collins

Adversity is simply part of earth life. From it we can grow and progress if we choose to. Yes, some trials come because of our own disobedience, but many trials are simply part of life.

Quotes by John Bytheway

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Quotes by Jimmy Carter

America has always built ourselves out of adversity. All the way back to the Great Depression.

Quotes by Jim Gray

My mom has always just been one of those people who handle adversity and challenges, and really everything, with so much grace and elegance. I saw it all the time.

Quotes by Jillian Hervey

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's interesting is watching them rise again, and seeing how they've changed and grown, if indeed they have.

Quotes by Jean Hanff Korelitz

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

Quotes by James Reston

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.

Quotes by James Keller

A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.

Quotes by James E. Faust

The Muppets are always really positive when they come across adversity, and they always have the ability to see the good in people.

Quotes by James Bobin

Adversity is a stimulus.

Quotes by James Broughton

It's always amazing when a fan will say you've helped them through some kind of adversity.

Quotes by James Arthur

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.

Quotes by Jacob Anderson

For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.

Quotes by J. Michael Straczynski

My mother persevered through much adversity because she possessed faith in God, self-respect, and an awareness of history; most especially, she was astute in Africa's significant contribution to world history. Sister Betty refused to live her life as a victim.

Quotes by Ilyasah Shabazz

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Quotes by Horace

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Quotes by Horace

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

Quotes by Horace

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Quotes by Horace

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

Quotes by Henry Fielding

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

Quotes by Henry Fielding

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.

Quotes by Henry Fielding

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.

Quotes by Heather Mills

I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.

Quotes by Harmon Killebrew

At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.

Quotes by Hannah Storm

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.

Quotes by Grant Achatz

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Quotes by Golda Meir

I've obviously learned a lot, a lot of mental toughness, learned how to deal with some adversity. Hopefully I'm better for it.

Quotes by Gerrit Cole

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Quotes by George Washington

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Quotes by George Washington

I try to find scripts of stories that kinda celebrate the human condition... let's talk about the tough world out there and the human spirit overcoming adversity.

Quotes by Garry Marshall

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Quotes by Francis Bacon

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Quotes by Francis Bacon

Sometimes when you stare adversity in the face you've got to go back to those basic principles of football and do them right.

Quotes by Fabian Delph

People are always saying, what use are the retarded, on welfare, using up all our funds, and yet, where else is there every day a greater example of the triumph of the human spirit over adversity than these people?

Quotes by Eunice Kennedy Shriver

I've been lucky that I haven't encountered much adversity growing up in London and having friends from all different backgrounds.

Quotes by Emma Weymouth

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Quotes by Elvis Presley

To me, obstacles in life build character. You have to be able to overcome adversity in order to succeed and appreciate the simple things life has to offer... that's where most of my inspiration for writing and singing comes from.

Quotes by Elliott Yamin

No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.

Quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Quotes by Elizabeth Hardwick

No poem in the world could do my mom justice. Despite circumstance and adversity, she had an unwavering love for her kids and a faith-based, boundless capacity for forgiveness.

Quotes by Ed Schultz

You learn from adversity more than anything because it allows you to see so much. It really allows you to see things in a different way.

Quotes by Draymond Green

Everybody suffers through some type of adversity. Does it make you stronger or does it pull you down? And I never will let any of that pull me down or pull me away from what I've set to achieve.

Quotes by Donovan McNabb

I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change.

Quotes by Dominique Moceanu

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.

Quotes by Diane Warren

In our personal and professional lives, we are constantly hit with one adversity after the other, most of which we have no control over. But the four things we have total control over is how we react, how we adapt, how we breathe, and how we take action.

Quotes by Diamond Dallas Page

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.

Quotes by Deshaun Watson

I just really know how to manage adversity.

Quotes by Deshaun Watson

Football is just like life. You have to manage adversity all the time. You have to do the right things and be ready for the moment.

Quotes by Deshaun Watson

There's always going to be adversity in life. I saw it growing up.

Quotes by Derrick Henry

When you work hard, it's definitely going to show. That's why with any athlete, we have struggles, and we have adversity, but as long as you work hard and keep your head down, you will always prevail.

Quotes by Derrick Henry

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Quotes by David Hare

Many of the lessons we are to learn in mortality can only be received through the things we experience and sometimes suffer. And God expects and trusts us to face temporary mortal adversity with His help so we can learn what we need to learn and ultimately become what we are to become in eternity.

Quotes by David A. Bednar

Adversity creates comedy.

Quotes by Darren Star

Yes, I did shatter my leg, and it really changed my life, in a way. It wasn't much fun, but it did open me up, and as we all know intuitively, adversity can develop resources.

Quotes by Dan Millman

Grit your teeth and smile. In the face of adversity, go. They don't deserve you.

Quotes by Christine Lagarde

I really believe in the old expression that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's through adversity that you find the strength you never knew you had.

Quotes by Christie Brinkley

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Quotes by Chanakya

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

Quotes by Cesare Pavese

Gore isn't required for a good story, but adversity is.

Quotes by Celeste Ng

I definitely thrive off adversity. I know it's always up from there.

Quotes by Caroline Buchanan

A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

Quotes by Cal Ripken, Jr.

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

C.S. Lewis

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Quotes by Brigham Young

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.

Quotes by Brian McDermott

You can do nothing, or you can take on the challenge of taking on the adversity. You have got to have faith. You have to have faith in whatever you believe in.

Quotes by Brian Banks

I consider adversity being good sometimes, you know.

Quotes by Brett Favre

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.

Quotes by Brett Favre

World records aren't broken in practice, and competitive environments and adversity are the birthplace of champions.

Quotes by Brandon Webb

Great leaders know that adversity produces the greatest opportunities in life.

Quotes by Brandon Webb

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.

Quotes by Brad Henry

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

Quotes by Boethius

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.

Quotes by Bobby Bowden

Any time you experience adversity, whether you lose a game or maybe have an official who makes a poor call that costs you the game, you've gotta handle yourself properly. Just like in life, not everything will go your way.

Quotes by Bob Stoops

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

Quotes by Billy Graham

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.

Quotes by Bill Dedman

Goals give you a mark to shoot for and keep you motivated when you face adversity.

Quotes by Benjamin Watson

There is no education like adversity.

Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Quotes by Ben Okri

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.

Quotes by Ben Okri

There will always be hard times. Use adversity to fuel your fire. In high school, I wanted to play quarterback but couldn't until I was a senior. I played wide receiver instead, and this ultimately helped me because I learned more about the game.

Quotes by Ben Roethlisberger

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

Quotes by Ben Jonson

Funnily enough, I did a play called 'Jumpy' on the West End before I did 'Divergent,' and there was an essence of that character I played, called Cam, in Will. In the sense of his vulnerability, and... he had a sense of humor that comes out of adversity, similar to Will.

Quotes by Ben Lloyd-Hughes

We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Quotes by Barbara De Angelis

I'm ready for any adversity that's going to hit.

Quotes by Baker Mayfield

Having been through some adversity, starting from different points and having to work through the depth chart on many occasions, it's definitely helped my story.

Quotes by Baker Mayfield

You have setbacks in your life, and adversity. You can be discouraged about it or have courage to get through it and be better.

Quotes by Austin Seferian-Jenkins

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