Quotes About Adversity

Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.

I've been on the opposite side of decisions before when the crowd would be booing and saying that I lost. I've lived with it. Judging in boxing has been same since the beginning, and it isn't gonna change.

You shouldn't end a band like Westlife and not be financially secure to some extent, but I wasn't at all - it was the complete opposite. But you look at stuff then, 'Well, what do I have? I don't have money but I have a great marriage, three healthy kids, and I have my voice. I'll just start again.'

We know what we are supposed to do and we don't want to do it, so we do the exact opposite anyway. And, it never goes well for us when we do that.

If I have a golden touch, I'd also say that I have the opposite of whatever a golden touch is, because I've had a lot of things fail. I think part of the experience of being successful is that you have to have a lot of stuff not work.

For me, opposition is just another opposition.

You need to hunt something that can shoot back at you to really classify yourself as a hunter. You need to understand the feeling of what it's like to go into the field and know your opposition can take you out.

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Opposition is an inevitable reality of pastoral life.

Just because you have opposition doesn't make you a great leader.

It's not a fun thing to be the person set up in opposition to the work everyone loves.

When the opposition sits back and defends well and together, it's difficult.

If we are confident of what we can do, then all opposition simply has to be treated as a whole.

This is football, and one cannot be distracted at any moment because the opposition can put you in difficulty and compromise a result.

The more I get better, the opposition has to get better.

When I was in my heyday, of course I had those who hated me. They were supposed to hate the opposition. But it's good, though. It feels good.

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

You have to look to the future with optimism instead of negative ideas. Take the good and the bad and face it head on.

Optimism - even, and perhaps especially in the face of difficulty - has long been an American hallmark.

My kids are resilient, I'm resilient, and I guess I am an optimist.

I'm an optimist, so I think everything can be worked out and fixed. But from having cancer I learned that even if you're even an optimist, sometimes you just have to face the facts that certain things are broken.

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.