Quotes About Adversity

Everybody's brave when they don't have any choice

Why was I standing on the street when the window feel out of the building? Why did the bus run over me? Because it was my turn in the barrel, that's why.

When you're down, remember your triumphs. That's what I need to tell the girls. Sometimes you get in trouble and crash. Other times: just a bumpy landing.

A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.

I'll be riding rough horses when you are salted away in a box.

callar es una virtud muy valiosa cuando vives en el infierno y te toca hablar con el diablo.

No se la iba a acabar, pero tendría que entender que así es la vida, que unas veces se pierde y otras se deja de ganar.

Rage is a useful emotion. Rage burns away sorrow and disgrace.

Moreover, when there is rough ground to be covered, a glass of wine does not go amiss.

I don't know why you're crying, Count. I lost closer friends than you when I was deloused!

I used to cry so much as a girl," Yasmin told him, managing a wry smile. "But these days I simply walk through it." "As do I," her grandfather said. "As do I. That might be the definition of maturity, dear.

It's not just that,' she said, trying to explain in a way he would understand. 'My life - any lady's life - is made up of morning calls, and musicales, and balls. I would be thrown out of society. No one would receive me or send invitations. That's what it means to be ruined.

Until, one day, she'd just . . . stopped. Not because the pain of losing him and the dream she'd carried for them had died, but because she'd learned that it was all right to live with pain and to use it. And in that, she'd found peace.

If you open this one, I want you to know that my respect for you has only deepened after learning of his seduction. You were taken advantage of, yet did not allow him to steal you, the essential you, the joyful you. You did not allow his evil intentions to define you.

In this way they bear up under the unfruitfulness of their own country. Since accepting Christianity, however… they have already learnt… to be content with, their poverty…

You may still be standing, dear,' it read, 'but the rest of us are on the fucking floor.

And it really taught me something important. Sometimes, you just have to step up to the plate, even if the plate is miles outside your comfort zone. It's like going deep inside yourself, forgetting about whatever emotions you may have and thinking: no, I'm a performer. This is what I do. Get on with it.

I wished that things had been different, but it was what it was. Sometimes you have to look at the hand you've been dealt and throw in

And for another, if you've spent your teens trying to play 'Roll Out The Barrel' while the clientele of a Northwood Hills pub beat the living shit out of each other, you don't scare that easily. In

when she was pregnant, so Nan was born in a workhouse. She never talked about it, but it seemed to have left her as someone nothing could faze,

But if I can't change the past, she thought, I can change the future, at least my own future. And if being strong was what it took, then she would learn to be strong.

Cuando te ocurre algo malo tienes que pensar que se te pasará aunque tú no lo creas, se te pasara, y a veces te acordarás de las cosas como si le hubieran pasado a otro -¿y tú por qué lo sabes? -porque me lo dijo mi padre una vez

sé caerme. Me he caído muchas veces.

de la misma forma que unas veces uno es arrojado al territorio de la desgracia; otras, gracias a la valentía, la desesperación y la suerte, encuentra uno la tierra prometida