Top 1200 Times Of Adversity Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.

Reverse the ball one time for a good shot, two times for a great shot, three times for a layup.

I despise 'animal welfare.' That's like saying, 'Let's beat the slaves three times a week instead of five times a week'.

Everybody goes through some tough times in their life, no matter what you do. Man, I've had my tough times.

In markets, there are times when you are looking for what makes sense. At other times, you are looking for what you can do that is sensible versus constraints and uncertainties.

Remain true to yourself and your philosophy. Changing in the face of adversity will in fact diminish your credibility with your customers.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

There are indeed times when one should TRUST blindly, just as there are times when one should not. WISDOM consists in being able to tell one from the other.

On average, African-American women are 4 times as likely to die from pregnancy related complications. Latina women are at 2 times greater risk.

I'm a big believer in volume. If I made three times as many movies as Stanley Kubrick, that must mean I'm three times as good.

The most satisfying accomplishment for me was winning the British Open in 1996. But the most rewarding times were the times on the mini tours.

At times I am very self-critical and disappointed with my appearance, and there are other times I think, 'How lucky I am to be alive.'

This is a crazy game we play. You're going to have those times you can't get out, and those times where you can do everything right, and the ball does not fall.

'Purple Plumeria' I dithered over for months and then wrote the whole thing between the beginning of July and end of August. The dithering and procrastination time was three times the writing times.

Stick out the bad times because there's always good times coming up. When you come out on the other side, it's amazing.

Above all, you have to love what you are doing. You cannot fake passion. If you love it you can fight through the rough times and enjoy the good times.

I don't know if you're married, but sometimes there are times where one is really together with their partner. And then there are times when you're both just in your own thing, but you're there together.

There's a lot of times when I feel nihilistic, and lose hope, like I'm just lost in the world. But there's a lot of times when I can kinda be in control of destiny.

That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity

You can win ten times, and then you are not able to win five times. I have to discover the reason why, and I am going to find that.

I don't care if I have to run 100 times or pass it 100 times, ... Whatever it takes to win is all that matters to me.

What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.

Many times the players get in there and it's just about as well as they could have done, and other times they get in there and they favorites and they don't win.

The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were rare.

I have been robbed a bunch of times. And now that I know how to pickpocket, I understand why I have been pickpocketed so many times.

How many times have I failed before? How many times have I stood here like this, in front of my own image, in front of my own person, trying to convince him not to be scared, to go on, to get out of this rut? How many times before I finally convince myself, how many private, erasable deaths will I need to die, how may self-murders is it going to take, how many times will I have to destroy myself before I learn, before I understand?

There were times that the kids were upset I wasn't there, those three times a year they needed me. The rest of the time, I'm sure that I wasn't in their thoughts.

I am social at times and sometimes, I want my privacy. There are days when I am at my chirpiest best and there are times when I wish to be left alone.

Some perfect wife I am. I've been married four times, divorced four times, have no children, and can't boil an egg.

Everybody makes money when times are good. It's when times are not so good that the groundwork is laid for the next generation.

I've gone through some dark times, and at those times, my tattoos have helped and guided me through.

The aspect of sport that you learn is that you have your good times and your bad times, but you share it with great people.

If I actively practice gratitude, I am able to keep myself grounded in the high times and lift myself up in the low times.

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

What is there to regret? I'm a committed Nazi, and if I had to be born a thousand times over, I would be a thousand times what I have been.

Being a champion is not just being a frontrunner and being ahead, but it's facing adversity.

We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times were until I left, but I guess that's the way of it

You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how steadfast he is to his dharma.

If somebody asks you the same questions 25 times, maybe 2,500 times, do you still want to talk about the same thing?

I eat exactly three times a day: breakfast, lunch and dinner. I sit quietly for 20 minutes without anybody disturbing me, and I chew each mouthful 60 times.

Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.

It's very intense to go back to the past and revive work that I've already experienced and moved forward from. It's like seeing an old girlfriend - awkward at times, nostalgic at times and downright maddening and embarrassing.

Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.

To protect women in times of war, we must first make sure women receive equal rights in times of peace.

Do you realize that at the moment we have Barry Goldwater fighting the Moral Majority, with The New York Times rooting for Goldwater? Times have changed.

I saw 'The Sting' about 35 times and 'Jeremiah Johnson' and 'Billy Jack' about 50 times.

Political life is like a big wheel: constantly turning. At times you are up, at times down. But always, the wheel keeps moving.

Difficult times don't come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you.

There are times when you can take yourself seriously and there are times when you can cut loose. It really depends on your goals and it depends on what you're promising the customer.

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.

They [in the New York Times] are really, really bad people. The largest shareholder in the Times is Carlos Slim.

The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.

The United States is a concept that works very well, even in bad times. But that's no reason to think its structure can be superimposed with success on any other part of the world, particularly when times are terrible.

But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.

A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.

When people talk about conservative government, that's it in a nutshell. We're using taxpayers' money like we would use our own. We're holding in the reins during good times so we're prepared during bad times.

Nine to Five is actually one of my favorite movies. I watched it a thousand times when I was a child, literally a thousand times.

Everybody need a partner to stand right by their side. Not only down for the good times. But also down through the bad times.