2,568 Quotes About Adversity

  • Author Jonathan Swift
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    In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.

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  • Author Josh Smith
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    We've had a lot of adversity, a lot of stuff said about our team. We've got to ignore that stuff. Coach is a great coach and we hate to see him go down that path. We're trying to play as hard as we can to prevent that from happening.

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  • Author Justin Smiley
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    People use that as a measuring stick of how this guy handles adversity, ... It wasn't losing a couple games in a row. It was a lot larger than that. I think he did a good job. It was pretty awesome how he brought everybody with him.

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  • Author Kelvin Stokes
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    Our guys have been through a lot of adversity this season, but we're getting closer. We're close to turning it around. We've got talent on this team. We've just got to keep working.

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  • Author Kelvin Stokes
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    There's a lot of football loft to be played. We've struggled with adversity -- a coaching change at the beginning of the season and another (last week). Now, we're trying to come together as a team. We feel like we have the foundation to win another division championship.

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  • Author Kimora Lee Simmons
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    I was bullied and picked on because I was so different to everyone else, and I definitely didn't believe or even know I was fabulous back then. But those hard times made me everything I am today. It's all water under the bridge now, but being bullied and going through adversity definitely made me stronger.

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  • Author Kurt Simon
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    I'm just proud of our kids to hang in there and keep their composure through all that adversity. We lost it for a little bit there in the fourth, but kept believing and kept working. That says a lot about our kids. This is two weeks in a row where it came down to the last second and we got it done.

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  • Author Laurence Sterne
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    The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.

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