Quotes About Adversity

They had learned that opposing a thing merely feeds it and strengthens it, giving it a reason to continue itself.

Okay? Do you remember the end of the story? What the villagers say? No one helps them but they help each other. Even though their town is gone, and all they see is water in every direction, they swim for land. We can make it, they say. We're going to help each other the whole way.

I didn't think I should die but I did not know how I would Live.

It was funny, he reflected later, how one's life could alter in an instant, how one minute everything could be a certain way, and the next it's simply ... not

James started to laugh. His chin hurt where she'd smacked him twice, his foot throbbed where she'd stepped on it, and his entire body felt as if he'd swum through a rosebush, which wasn't as far off the truth as it sounded. Yet still he started to laugh.

It's good that you can be horrid when neccesary. It's a useful skill." She leaned on her elbow, settling her chin onto her hand. "Funny, my brother never seemed to think so.

There were a thousand ways to make an idiot of oneself, with new opportunities arising every day. It was exhausting trying to avoid them all.

don't think any of us knows how we will react to a crisis until we are forced into one.

Weakness, she thought as she let her forehead rest against the smooth, cool glass of her window, never got anyone anywhere.

When the alternative is despair, I generally prefer humor.

plague nor pestilence nor perfidious paramour

You said you were going to struggle," he explained. "Yes, but what does that have to do—" "Remember when I said I was too old for this?" She nodded. "Well, 'this' includes a struggle.

She smiled serenely. "A very wise person once told me that it is not the mistakes we make that reveal our character but what we do to rectify them.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

It's up to the individual to make the best of what life has dealt.

It is an individual sport and you don't get many opportunities to overturn dodgy decisions.

It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.

Everybody's got the things that are crap about them, and that's inescapable because we're a product of our environment and our environment isn't always great.

Whenever you have a good idea, it's inevitable some people will criticize it and deny it. Some people will try to prove it's wrong.

Failures and setbacks are inevitable for all of us.

Every entrepreneur knows how agonizingly difficult it is to make the decision to give it your all, knowing that failure is inevitable; the successful ones know that the only way to get back up is through learning from that failure.

There's adversity, it's inevitable you are going to face it.

Every first-term president has to learn something after he comes into office. Nobody can be completely ready for the inevitable crises.

We're all going to make mistakes; they're inevitable. It's what you do after these mistakes that matters.