handling adversity Quotes

It's core to my beliefs now: Sometimes in being given a challenge, you're actually being given a real opportunity, and a lot of that is how you handle it. Do you feel sorry for yourself or do you think, All right! I'll see what I can make out of this? I've had that over and over. If I hang out in the disappointment, I'll just be disappointed all the time.

Not everything is going to go exactly as you plan. It's what you do when everything breaks down.

Choose a challenge instead of competence

Any time you experience adversity, whether you lose a game or maybe have an official who makes a poor call that costs you the game, you've gotta handle yourself properly. Just like in life, not everything will go your way.

Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you're done before you know it.

A responsible warrior is not someone who takes the weight of the world on his shoulders, but someone who has learned to deal with the challenges of the moment.

I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind.

I think one of the great things about a football season is that you see teams play in all types of environments, and if you can't handle one of them, you probably don't deserve to win anyway.

In my opinion, character is the most important determinant of a person's success, achievement and ability to handle adversity.

You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.

I try my best to avoid the sharks of life, but I have had my share of experiences with them, and in those cases I just have to handle them accordingly. But I do not swim with sharks ... sharks swim with sharks.

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.

It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.

Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do , and you must respond as they come.

Though you may not be able to change it, you can handle an ugly situation beautifully.

When life hits you hard, it can throw you off course. But how you handle that adversity can teach you so much about yourself and change your perspective on what you actually want from life.

We're all victims of what life deals out. It's how we handle it that's important.

Sooner or later comes a crisis in our affairs, and how we meet it determines our future happiness and success. Since the beginning of time, every form of life has been called upon to meet such crisis.

The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.

Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.

I am someone who will rise to an occasion like that. Other occasions can defeat me.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

Fighting really does reveal everything to the other guy. It's not just about who can beat up to or who's tougher, it's who bullies who and who goes easy on who. You change from opponent, so it's about how you deal with a challenge and how you deal with a guy who you can handle easily.

The question is not whether or not you will face trials. The question is, how will you respond when you do?

We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.