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

Jennifer Egan

#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. You never know when God's going to replace what you thought was gone forever. What a gift - a precious gift from God.

Regina Jennings

#5. I think there is a long exploration in American drama of women in particular who, by force of circumstances or because they are predisposed to, choose fantasy over reality.

Cate Blanchett

#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. How do you choose your books?' my friends had asked. Less than a week into my project, I can now tell them the beginning of the truth. I don't always choose the books, I'll say. Sometimes the books choose me.

Sara Nelson

#8. 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

#9. Some people believe in God. I believe in music. Some people pray. I turn up the radio.

Jared Leto

#10. 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

#11. Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides.

Nina Fedoroff

#12. And right now, all I can do is take his word. All I can do is take my trust and place it back into his hands. I just hope he knows that it's all the trust I have left to give him. I know for a fact that if he hurts me like he's hurt me before, it'll be the last time he ever hurts me.

Colleen Hoover

#13. The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

Baruch Spinoza

#14. The apostles never described themselves as wealthy; instead, they warned those who were rich that their wealth could indeed threaten their perspective on eternal matters. Like

J. Warner Wallace

#15. In life, the worst disasters come from passion.

Euripides

#16. The fans may be surprised to know that during my freshman year at Oglethorpe, I waited on tables and never made an error, never dropped a tray nor broke a dish.

Luke Appling

#17. I still can't unsee Tommy's outfit: nighttime sunglasses, a dark blazer as loose and baggy as rain gear, sand-colored cargo pants with pockets filled to capacity (was he smuggling potatoes?), a white tank top, clunky Frankenstein combat boots, and two belts. Yes, two belts.

Greg Sestero

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

Lauren Mackler

#19. When you work hard ... it's only fair that you party hard.

Conor Maynard

#20. If you are afraid of someone, you immediately give them an advantage and give them entry to your awareness field.

Frederick Lenz