2,568 Quotes About Adversity

Righteousness has never precluded adversity.

A guy has adversity and picks himself up and fights through it,

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

I will guarantee you that the day you step outside your comfort zone by making success your goal is the day you discover that adversity, risk, and daring will make life sweeter than you ever imagined.

Our main objective as a group was to respond to any adversity that we faced all year. That's where I think our major accomplishment was, we battled injuries, we battled people putting us down, we battled a dry spell a few weeks ago. So it may have surprised other people but we knew in our dressing room that we had character, leadership - a lot more maturity than we had two, three seasons ago.

There's adversity; what are you going to do with it? Are you going to turn it into a positive ?

That really came at the right time for us. We just haven't played real good baseball, and it's tough with a young club when you have adversity early.

Adversity is the midwife of genius

Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem is low, our resilience in the face of life's adversities is diminished. We crumble before vicissitudes that a healthier sense of self could vanquish. We tend to be more influenced by the desire to avoid pain than to experience joy. Negatives have more power over us than positives.