“Permanent and pervasive explanations for adversity turn minor complications into major catastrophes. They make it seem logical to give up. If,” — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
“I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Adversity is a natural part of being human. It is the height of arrogance to prescribe a moral code or health regimen… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Difficulties not broken, you are made / broken on the relationship, then become a curse / wish of God, and some courts… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object--the joy of living--is not in the peak… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
We do not choose between a life of difficulty and a life of ease. We simply choose for what purpose we will… — Daniel Taylor Copy Share Image
One way we could describe the struggle of life would be to say it is a battle between agency and addiction. Agency… — John Bytheway Copy Share Image
You learn from adversity more than anything because it allows you to see so much. It really allows you to see things… — Draymond Green Copy Share Image
“When you encounter obstacles, don’t turn your back on them. Face them, confront them and your will see them dissolving in front… — Roopleen Copy Share Image
I mean, I think everyone at this level has a chip on their shoulder. Everyone's got a story. Everyone has had to… — Julian Edelman Copy Share Image
If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough,… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
“Bullying builds character like nuclear waste creates superheroes. It's a rare occurrence and often does much more damage than endowment.” — Zack W. Van Copy Share Image
Adversity is a good test of our resiliency, our ability to cope, to stand back up, to recover from misfortune. Adversity is… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure, Which is a kind of trouble that is… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“One who denies the truth cannot go anywhere because he cannot face anything, starting from the many difficulties one already has where… — Jocelyn Soriano Copy Share Image
For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That's the area I excel in. That's where my passion is.… — Ann Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Doing new things invariably means obstacles. A new path is, by definition, uncleared. Only with persistence and time can we cut away… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How you balance class and school and other stuff outside, then working out twice a day - as a freshman, you're thrown… — Willie Cauley-Stein Copy Share Image
I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of… — Harvey Keitel Copy Share Image
I will forever be fascinated by how people deal with adversity, how people react in moments of crisis, or how people behave… — Julie Foudy Copy Share Image
A bad day is just a bad day. Choose not to make it anything more. Times of adversity will inevitably affect the… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A power struggle collapses when you withdraw your energy from it. Power struggles become uninteresting to you when you change your intention… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is,… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot going on obviously when you deal with adversity. You want to make sure that there's no splinter… — Matthew Slater Copy Share Image
Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems - or it may be the same problem… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
You show me anybody that's great in anything they do, I'll show you somebody that's persevered, demonstrated that mental toughness to overcome… — Sean McVay Copy Share Image
If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there's a strong chance that the root of the problem… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
Defeat may test you; it need not stop you. If at first you don't succeed, try another way. For every obstacle there… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
People are at their best when they are challenged. If we don't challenge ourselves, nature has a way of giving us challenges… — Thomas Frey Copy Share Image
“Going through life has its struggles, but not sharing the trials in a way that engages great communication, is a loss of… — Daniel B. Royer Copy Share Image
In the face of adversity, you find out if you're a fighter or a quitter. It's all about getting up after you've… — Archie Griffin Copy Share Image
The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one… — Gustav Stresemann Copy Share Image
“Nothing is a greater obstacle to our progress in knowledge, than a bad performance of a celebrated author; because, before we instruct… — Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
