Quotes About Facing Adversity

#1. Everybody wants to talk about NBA players being selfish and arrogant and individuals. But what you saw today was a team bonding and facing adversity and coming out with a big win.

Kobe Bryant

#2. I feel lucky for my upbringing and tremendous adversity, which made me so successful, now I like to devote my life to improve lives of others, who are facing adversity every day.

Debasish Mridha

#3. You don't play 162 games without facing some adversity during the course of the year.

Tom Glavine

#4. Why do we dread adversity when we know that facing it is the only way to become stronger, smarter, better?

John Wooden

#5. For my writing, and because I love talking to young women about life, I often asked them which would they rather have - a father in the house with them while growing up or a big butt? I tell you 86 percent of the time, girls say a big butt because it gets them further.

Jill Scott

#6. The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already overcome great adversity in facing polio but who went on to take the reins of our armed forces in the greatest conflagration in human history - on our behalf.

Nigel Hamilton

#7. Strictly speaking, there is no absolute reality, and that is why two individuals facing the same situation may end up seeing adversity or opportunity depending on their mental model.

Mushtak Al-Atabi

#8. People see musicians on a huge stage playing a festival for 80,000 people and are like, "Oh, they have such magnetism," but it always embarrasses me more than it makes me feel proud.

Geoff Rickly

#9. We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon

Walter Scott

#10. The first question to be answered by any individual or any social group, facing a hazardous situation, is whether the crisis is to be met as a challenge to strength or as an occasion for despair.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#11. Difficulties, opposition, criticism-these things are meant to be overcome, and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life loses its charm and I begin to wonder what I should do about it.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

#12. If you're facing a season of trials, don't allow the enemy to have a field day by putting negative thoughts in your mind. Let go of stinking thinking. Instead of turning away from God in anger or confusion, run into His loving arms where He will comfort you.

Dana Arcuri

#13. It is easy to climb the ladder of success if one is working on issues and aeas which are not frequented by the masses, provided one is ready to face challenges.

Vishwas Chavan

#14. Keeping it real" isn't just a matter of facing up to harsh facts. It also includes opening up to the plethora of possibilities that offer us ways of impacting the world in spite of adversity.

T.K. Coleman

#15. Facing the world full of confidence is sometimes out of your league particularly if you have come up against or been compromised by adversity in some form.

Auliq Ice

#16. These are tough times, and the New Yorkers I have met are facing economic adversity with grace and dignity. They worry about their future, care about their neighbors and hope this storm will pass so they can focus on better days ahead.

Harold Ford Jr.

#17. I do not walk away in the face of adversity and never have.

Stevie Nicks

#18. I always found Dickens very coarse. I don't want to read about people who drop their aitches.

W. Somerset Maugham

#19. His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#20. If it is going to kill you," Enso Roshi says, "then let it kill you.

T. Scott McLeod

#21. I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.

Caprice Bourret

#22. The dirty laundry of our confessed sin belongs in the Lord's laundry hamper; for there He will toss them like mismatched socks as far as the east is from the west.

Cheryl Zelenka