Quotes About Adversity

It takes courage to throw off unproductive methods and approaches that the majority of scholars in your field have unquestioningly yoked themselves to for decades.

Lurching from cataclysm to disaster and from misfortune to calamity

I remember something the Warmaster said back in the day, you know, back before everything went to shit. He said that man has control of action alone, never the fruits of the action. Take control of your actions, Garvi. Remember that when things look their worst, you can only do what you think is right at the time.

And how can anyone say they are strong if they have never been tested? It's easy to be strong when everything is going well. It's when things go to hell that true character emerges.

No matter how shitty things are, you can always get a song out of it.

When the odds are impossible -- do the impossible.

So this additional indignity will be inflicted upon you. It means, I believe, that humans will not end here, but may rise again—fight again. Humans are always warriors.

Fear is a drug you need to survive. Without fear, you die quicker; that's part of basic, that's what the old guys instill in us when we're fledglings waiting and eager to fly; fear is your friend, but only in controlled doses, never in such flooding waves that you panic. Panic kills you quicker than bullets. Panic turns you into doomed animals.

The quest, the fight—never the finding or the victory.

Even with all the mayonnaise in the world, you can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit.

A child born in hell," the white-haired prisoner said. "A child forged by suffering. Hardened by pain." He shook his head sadly at Bruce. "Not a child of privilege.

There's no meaning to be found in tragedy. Only in our response to it.

Southern women don't show their pain to anybody. They aren't raised that way. But they feel it.

Those who love heroes must walk a stony road.

Storms will always come, and men will always do evil in the shadow of some other word. It's how we respond that defines us.

superior numbers took their toll. Realizing that he and

path of least resistance, or the walk over hot coals.

I don't say it was hard, because everybody got it hard, some way.

Is that a no? she asks . Once burned, twice shy, Sam chimes in. I like Wilde's quote better, Caitlin rejoins. What's that? I ask. The burnt child loves the fire. The Quiet Game. The Quiet Game (Kindle Locations 1477-1479). Kindle Edition.

Might-have and mud are fine places to wallow

Often we fear the most difficult experiences of life only to discover that these are the experiences that bring Jesus Christ closer to us.

Only the strongest could survive in such a place. This was the bosom of the motherland, a place of ice and of stone. If you possessed the necessary will, you would survive, she would forge you into something stronger. If not? The motherland always had other children to feed.

When you get stuck, remember that you can deal with physical issues intellectually and intellectual issues emotionally. You can work out emotional issues psychologically and psychological issues spiritually. Those are the spokes of the wheel—one breaks, you can use another to fix it.

There is no emotion more useless than self-pity. Evan