How We Respond To Adversity Quotes

#1. 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

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

Lauren Mackler

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Jennifer Egan

#6. 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

#7. 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