Quotes About Adversity

You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.

I was crushed at the time," the friend said, "But, looking back, I can see that not getting that job was the best thing that ever happened to me.

being a survivor meant that you lived to some degree in a chronic state of mourning, like a low-level fever that waxes and wanes but is never truly eliminated.

Haters are going to hate but they still want the recipe.

Don't stop your dream just because someone else has a nightmare.

There are but two failures in life.1. Not learning from mistakes2. Not making more mistakes

Some people fall in love and touch the sky. Some people fall in love and find quicksand.

Someone will inevitably find something wrong in almost everything, so do what it is that you do best and remember to have enough tolerance for two.

We all are damaged in our own way just trying to make it to another day. A moment at a time, a breath to stay present in acknowledging the fact that death is looming over us all.

We won't be able to drink water?

When survival was in question, you fought hard and you seized every advantage, because your enemy was sure to do the same.

Orphans have to run well. A slow orphan ends up in jail.

This just kept getting worse. Would there ever be good news?

Victor." "You've

Making mistakes is part of learning to choose well. No way around it. Choices are thrust upon us, and we don't always get things right. Even postponing or avoiding a decision can become a choice that carries heavy consequences. Mistakes can be painful-sometimes they cause irrevocable harm-but welcome to Earth. Poor choices are part of growing up, and part of life. You will make bad choices, and you will be affected by the poor choices of others. We must rise above such things.

I will take responsibility for what I have done," Dalinar whispered. "If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.

A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.

A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.

This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.

Life breaks us, Teft. Then we fill the cracks with something stronger.

I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I'll open my eyes and look back at them, and they'll know that I survived.

A hero does not choose her trials. She steps into the darkness, then she faces what comes next.

Let them see my weakness, and let them see me overcome it.

Plan every battle as if you will inevitably retreat, but fight every battle like there is no backing down.