Quotes About Adversity

You must be ready to confront difficulties if you would realise your hopes. It is the part of man to strive, and not to rely on the favours of Fortune.

They persisted in the face of discouragement until they gained the kind of acceptance accorded to the inevitable.

The Upper One sent the Tribulation to destroy them and remind them that existence means constant change.

In my experience,' he told me, 'if you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either. Now, running to a thing, that's a different matter, but what would you want to run to?

In my experience,' he told me, 'if you run away from a thing just because

If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.

Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten

If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

For all civilisations are like elaborate campings-out, a complicated picnic in the face of nature's discomforts.

Heath lost an argument with a porcupine in the castle gardens.

We all like to think we're strong, until we are faced with our own loss.

I tried to stay in the clear parts of the road, avoiding horse dung. Perhaps going barefoot had not been the wisest choice.

You can't just sit in a corner weeping or you'll die.

Von Linden really should know me well enough by now to realise that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity.

Incredible. It is just incredible that you can notice something like that when your face is so cold you can't feel it anymore, and you know perfectly well you are surrounded by death, and the only way to stay alive is to endure the howling wind and hold your course. And still the sky is beautiful.

Doing the thing you are scared of is much harder than not being afraid of anything. It is easy to be brave. It is not so easy to be scared and do a brave thing anyway.

I am in the Special Operations Executive because I can speak French and German and am good at making up stories, and I am a prisoner in the Ormaie Gestapo HQ because I have no sense of direction whatsoever.

Julie would have died there.

She tried not to think about what it would be like running across the airfield to the radio room an hour from now, under fire. But she did it. Because you do. It is incredible what you do, knowing you have to.

Don't you think it makes them stronger when you give them someone to despise?

Von Linden really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity.

If he let himself believe that, he would lie down in the middle of the road and give up. So he took the thought right out of his mind and left it sitting there on the side of the road.

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.