How Do You Respond To Adversity Quotes

#1. Once we had become locked in on a schedule, he (Coach Denny Green) often created a disruption (artificial adversity) to that schedule just to see how guys would respond.

Tony Dungy

#2. Our failures make us who we are; they build our character, we are defined by what we do with them, and how we respond to adversity. Without failure there is no growth, no striving for better, no adjusting, or dusting yourself off to try again.

J.W. Lord

#3. A principled person's greatest disappointment will always be his or her own failures to respond to setbacks in a dynamic and positive way.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#4. The battle of Varus is an enigma, not in a military but in a political point of view - not in its course, but in its consequences.

Theodor Mommsen

#5. Mediocrity is your enemy,
satisfactory is your acquaintance,
excellence is your friend,
and genius is your soul mate.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#6. I know what I want. A full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.

Karen Cushman

#7. All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.

Richard Harding Davis

#8. Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

George Bernard Shaw

#9. In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage. For in the very nature of things, success tends to create pride and blindness in the hearts of men, while suffering teaches them to be patient and strong.

Xenophon

#10. I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.

Jennifer Egan

#11. And then I went to visit my sister in the states and all of a sudden it was just like, it's like ... it's like the movie Wizard of Oz when all of a sudden it changes from Black and White to glorious Technicolor.

John Mahoney

#12. I am in control of the body, and as long as I am in control of the body, I will not allow it to hurt itself.

David Levithan

#13. Do you wish people to speak well of you?
Then do not speak at all yourself.
[Fr., Voulez-vous qu'on croie du bien de vous?
N'en dites point.]

Blaise Pascal

#14. We have absolutely no control over what happens to us in life but what we have paramount control over is how we respond to those events.

Viktor E. Frankl

#15. Merlin, if you don't stop whining, I'm going to take Gwen's sword and beat you to death with it," said Arthur, evenly.
"It's plastic."
"So it will take me a long time. I'm still game.

FayJay

#16. Ben was a man living his dream. As if anyone could compete with that. Maybe he'd liked the idea of me. Reality was, however, there'd never been room for me in his life.

Kylie Scott

#17. Everyone looks so excited for the first day of school, hugging each other hello and wearing bright, shiny new outfits that practically glow in fog.

Paige McKenzie

#18. Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well.

Roy H. Williams

#19. The physical part has a lot to do with the mental part.

Adrian Peterson

#20. Nope. Too Much," Marin said, and tossed the little man out of the hospital window. She needed coffee. Either that or a large dose of Thorazine.

Tracey Clark

#21. The best antidote to stress is resilience ... having the ability to respond to change or adversity proactively and resourcefully.

Lauren Mackler