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Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.
Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.
Your attitude towards problems, difficulties, and adversities is the most important factor in overcoming them.
You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand, but you play it. And I've played it.
Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones.
Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity.
If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry--do something about it. Worry less, and act more.
For me, football is a quest. Quests entail overcoming hardship, trials of adversity in the pursuit of true joy.
Everyone has to have either this or that problem, if he can't find any problem, he loses all reason for living.
There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming.
Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.
I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity.
I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Although a lot can be learned from adversity, most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy.
When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.
It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.
Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
I think it was coach Lombardi that said, 'Adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it.' And that's so true.
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.
You should not suffer the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop.
In adversity you have to become stronger and make sure you don't make those mistakes again so you learn from it.
Sometimes you have to forget what's gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what's coming next.
You should always want your coach to be critical. It gives you an opportunity to learn and to overcome adversity
Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them.
When I say 'fighter,' I am thinking about how you deal with adversity, how you deal with being in bad situations.
In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.
One thing that I don't think my critics realize about me is that I've been trained to look adversity in the face.
The winds of tribulation, which blow out some men's candles of commitment, only fan the fires of faith of others.
A good coach is interested in how tough you are, how you react to adversity, how quickly you get back on defense.
Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.
Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one's journey is easy. It's how they handle it that makes people unique.
Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.
You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.
If our team doesn't face enough adversity early on in a season, I create it. Nothing builds a team like adversity.
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity.
If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.
You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.
I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.
Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.
I've faced adversity countless, countless times throughout my life. One thing I've always preached is keep pushing.
Rejoice in liberating moments of victory when conflicts, trials, and adversity fall momentarily under your command.
"When in your life were you the most challenged?" I love to hear stories of adversity and how people overcome them.
Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical