I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.
Aaron Levie
The beautiful thing about the NFL season is to see a team come together after they get to know each other in the spring and summer. You then go through adversity together and see how you respond. The teams that can respond in a positive way are the teams that are going to be there in the end.
Aaron Rodgers
How you deal with adversity says a lot about the kind of players you've got and the kind of team we've got.
Celebrate creativity and confidence in the face of adversity.
Abhijit Banerjee
Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.
Abu Bakr
I get Tweets every day from people telling me that 'Hey, I'm going to overcome my injury or my illness. Cancer. Different diseases. I can beat it because Adrian Peterson showed me the determination and the willpower to be able to prosper and get through adversity whenever it comes.'
Adrian Peterson
It feels good when guys reach out to be inspired - and you have shown people an example of how you can come back and be better than you were before when adversity strikes; and when the world predicts the opposite, you show them you not only can be successful but be great.
Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.
Aimee Mullins
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.
Alan Gregg
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Albert Schweitzer
I bump into a lot of people that have similar problems that I have but less titles or magazines than I have, and they just challenge their adversity with the same tenacity, with the same enthusiasm, with the same will to succeed because life is one and you've got to take advantage.
Alex Zanardi
In 'Gravity,' nearly everything is a metaphor for the main character. The way I tend to approach a film is that character and background are equally important; one informs the other. Here, Sandra Bullock is caught between Earth and the void of the universe, just floating there in between. We use the debris as a metaphor for adversity.
Alfonso Cuaron
I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.
Allen Klein
In adversity, you have to find motivation to continue and do well.
Alvaro Morata
Mentally strong people overcome setbacks with confidence because adversity only makes them better.
Amy Morin
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Anais Nin
I believe it is only when one comes out of adversity, that one starts to see real beauty.
Ananya Birla
We have to have adversity in order for us to really reap the benefits and really just have an appreciation of how hard it is to win in the NBA.
Andre Iguodala
You're going to face adversity. It's not if - it's when.
Andre Ward
Being a champion is not just being a frontrunner and being ahead, but it's facing adversity.
I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.
People can grow from adversity as much as they do from prosperity.
My late father Rev. James Thomas McGlowan was the inspiration behind 'Bamboozled.' My father admired Frederick Douglass' courage and his bravery in the face of adversity.
A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
The journey is never ending. There's always gonna be growth, improvement, adversity; you just gotta take it all in and do what's right, continue to grow, continue to live in the moment.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
I studied in Britain and spent great moments of my life there as a student living in Belsize Park. I admire the British trait of the stiff upper lip in the face of adversity. My wife studied in Britain, too, and both of us have many friends there.
I'm not fearful for myself, because I've seen adversity, and I can see it again. But I feel very upset and anguished when I see images of young lawyers beaten up.
You have setbacks in your life, and adversity. You can be discouraged about it or have courage to get through it and be better.
I'm ready for any adversity that's going to hit.
Having been through some adversity, starting from different points and having to work through the depth chart on many occasions, it's definitely helped my story.
We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.
Funnily enough, I did a play called 'Jumpy' on the West End before I did 'Divergent,' and there was an essence of that character I played, called Cam, in Will. In the sense of his vulnerability, and... he had a sense of humor that comes out of adversity, similar to Will.
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
There will always be hard times. Use adversity to fuel your fire. In high school, I wanted to play quarterback but couldn't until I was a senior. I played wide receiver instead, and this ultimately helped me because I learned more about the game.
There is no education like adversity.
Goals give you a mark to shoot for and keep you motivated when you face adversity.
The Adversity Index was created by msnbc.com and Moody's Analytics to track the economic fortunes of states and metro areas. Each month, the Adversity Index uses government data on employment, industrial production, housing starts and home prices to label each area as expanding, at risk of recession, in recession or recovering.
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
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.
Like many other people, I grew up with so much adversity and negativity, it would have been easy to get overwhelmed and give in. But by turning negatives into positives, losing into a journey to winning, I have been able to overcome the odds that were against me and change them into motivation for my success.
People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.
If we have to battle through some adversity during the year, sometimes that can be the best thing for a team.
Great leaders know that adversity produces the greatest opportunities in life.
World records aren't broken in practice, and competitive environments and adversity are the birthplace of champions.
