Quotes About Adversity

I've been through the highs and lows. I know what it's like to taste defeat and it's not nice.

You're going to have highs and lows, but it's how you get through the lows.

I had just broke in and everything was going so well, to have it all ripped away like that is not nice. That's part of football, and that stuff happens all the time. You go from the highest of highs, and then it's taken away and you're from there to rock bottom.

I've had highs and lows.

This game has such extreme highs and lows.

For me, 'Sultan' was like a resurrection. I think my career was almost dead. You go through these lows and highs in life, especially in a film career and you live with your chin up.

We were the guys on the other side. It was hilarious.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.

Ackbar spoke desperately into the comlink. "It's a trap.

They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes." Leia Organa of Alderaan, Senator

Yet I know that good is coming to me—that good is always coming; though few have at all times the simplicity and the courage to believe it. What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good.

Nobody who has not been tried knows how difficult it is; but whoever has come out well of it - and those who do not overcome never do come out of it - always looks back with horror, not on what she has come through, but on the very idea of the possibility of having failed and being still the same miserable creature as before.

For the absence of human companionship in bestial forms; the loss of green fields, free to her as to the winds of heaven, and of country sounds and odours; and an almost constant sense of oppression from the propinquity of one or another whom she had cause to fear, were speedily working sad effects upon her.

I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence.

A devil - A power that lives against its life

She did not cry long, however, for she was as brave as could be expected of a princess her age.

It is like his Father, too, not to withhold good wine because men abuse it. Enforced virtue is unworthy of the name. That men may rise above temptation, it is needful that they should have temptation. It is the will of him who makes the grapes and the wine.

The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.

Good luck "You will be the better for it," he returned. "I believe I've allus been the better for any trouble as ever I had to go through with. I couldn't quite say the same for every bit of good luck I had; leastways, I consider trouble the best luck a man can have." Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood, ch. 33

A slave will amuse himself in his dungeon; a free man must file through his chains and dig through his prison-walls before he can frolic.

when the games going against you, stay calm - and cheat.

On the credit side, there is a Border virtue which in the human scale should outweigh all the rest, and it is simply the ability to endure, unchanging. Perhaps the highest compliment that one can pay to the people of the Anglo-Scottish frontier is to remark that, in spite of everything, they are still there.

People who have suffered every hardship and atrocity, and who have every reason to fear that they will suffer them again, may submit tamely, or they may fight for survival. The English and Scots of the frontier were not tame folk.