Quotes About Adversity

He was permanently exhausted and beset by all the torments, terrible and trivial, that poverty endures.

and violent, and they need to fear it. If

I was exiled from my family, homeland, and culture. I thought that was the whole of it. Years into the banishment, I realised that I was exiled to something, as well. What I escaped to was the lonely, reckless freedom of the outcast.

No-one, and nothing, could hurt me. No-one, and nothing, could make me very happy. I was tough, which is probably the saddest thing you can say about a man.

Exactly-merde and bad food, c'est l'amour.

Fate's way of beating us in a fair fight is to give us warnings that we hear, but never heed.

I think it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering.

I don't know what scares me more, she declared, the madness that smashes people down, or their ability to endure it.

Nothing, my old friend. Only, is it not true that some of our strength comes from suffering? That suffering hardship makes us stronger? That those of us who have never known a real hardship, and true suffering, cannot have the same strength as others, who have suffered much? And if that is true, does that not mean that your argument is the same thing as saying that we have to be weak to suffer, and we have to suffer to be strong, so we have to be weak to be strong?

But survival means more than simply being alive.

Pain without suffering is like victory without struggle.

And little by little, things settled down to the semblance of peace that's good enough, when you know enough about bad enough.

I don't know what scares me more,' she declared, 'the madness that smashes people down, or their ability to endure it.

I learned failure early and mastered it.

Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.

She would emerge. She always had before. The punishing political climate of Oz had beat her down, dried her up, tossed her away—like a seedling she had drifted, apparently too desiccated ever to take root. But surely the curse was on the land of Oz, not on her. Though Oz had given her a twisted life, hadn't it also made her capable?

I've been so close on so many occasions and had so many horrendous injuries. You go from hamstring tear to hamstring tear and achilles problems and then you get MS! But you've got to keep going, which I did and I've got the kit and a world record and the world title.

World records aren't broken in practice, and competitive environments and adversity are the birthplace of champions.

The fact that guys adjusted really quickly to the big leagues, developed really quickly, faced adversity under the brightest spotlights, played great baseball, overcame so much, overcame centuries worth of issues and won a World Series, I guess it doesn't necessarily mean we're still not just prone to the laws of nature and reality and baseball.

To win a World Series, the whole team has to be hot, everything has to go your way.

I feel that if I absolve myself and say it was the Astros' fault I was bad in Game 7, in the World Series, I can't develop as a person.

Americans did not suffer alone. World trade overall fell two-thirds in the first few years of the Depression.

I had a really hard time after 9/11. I was basically living across the street from the World Trade Center, and a big chunk of debris fell on top of my building, and the roof caved in. I thought I was going to die. Really. I'd never thought that before, but on that day I sat there and thought 'I cannot believe it's going to end this way.'

If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second World War - they have all been creative reinventions, the moment new forms of luxury come into play.