Quotes About Adversity

It's always about focusing not on the mistakes but on the lessons learned from them.

During the toughest challenges in my life I've come to most appreciate all Coach Wooden means to me. The things he would say—"Don't lie, don't cheat, don't steal, don't whine, don't complain, don't make excuses; worry about the things you can control, and not the things you can't"—were endless. Yet there is an appropriate one for every situation. The real

Lincoln himself once said, "The worst things you can do for those you love are the things they could and should do for themselves." He fiercely believed in self-sufficiency, and in the maturity and character that struggles and hardships can bring.

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out

I had mistakes, plenty, but I had no failures

Make the best of what you've got; play the cards you are dealt. Walt Disney once said, "There is no education like adversity." However, to gain this education you must be tough enough to overcome adversity rather than allowing adversity to overcome you.

Condition Your Team to Love the Struggle.

Things turn out the best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Sports don't build character; they reveal it.

There is no education like adversity." However, to gain this education you must be tough enough to overcome adversity rather than allowing adversity to overcome you.

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

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

It's good to know who hates you, and it's good to be hated by the right people.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

But if I had lived to be twenty-nine years old like I am, and with all my chances made no enemy, I'd feel myself a failure.

Let the Church work out its own destiny, Miss McGee. Love it, be faithful, but don't let yourself be thrown off balance at every twist and turn

When asked about his apparent lack of anger toward the Chinese by an incredulous reporter at the time he won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Dalai Lama replied something to the effect that: "They have taken everything from us; should I let them take my mind as well?

Everything can be taken from a human being but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." MBSR

Just us fancy wise-men trying to take on the world.

As believers, our reaction to crisis reveals our heart toward God.

What if the drive to survive was a form of faith, a form of prayer?

God blesses you when you stand up for what you believe in despite opposition.