Quotes About Adversity

Sometimes, continuing to breathe is a tough enough prospect

It was useful to have a reputation, so long as it didn't crush you.

The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. It is not how easily they jump at a noise or how quick they are to show emotion. It's how they make use of what life has shown them.

Sometimes, when you stepped in something foul, the only thing to do was stop walking and make the effort to clean it off.

Where there are villains, there will be heroes

Kelsier had, apparently, insisted on laughing, no matter how bad the situation. It had been a form of rebellion to him.

Either way, we had him to thank for a world without flowers, where plants grew brown rather than green, and where people could survive in an environment where ash fell from the sky on a regular basis.

There is honor in loss

If that loss brings learning.

Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise—some must be hurt while others have fortune, for that is the only way we can learn to rely on one another.

aunque yo no hubiera venido. Un hombre solo puede dar tumbos durante un tiempo hasta que se cae o se endereza.

La medida de una persona no es cuánto ha vivido. No es lo fácilmente que salta ante un ruido o lo rápido que muestra sus emociones. Es cómo hace uso de lo que la vida le ha mostrado.

You told me it would get worse." "It will," Wit said, "but then it will get better. Then it will get worse again. Then better. This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth. I promise you, Kaladin: You will be warm again.

Defiant to the end. For all the good it had done

It's been a long day. I got shot at, got a water tower dumped on my head, and had my wedding fall apart. Now Wayne is dropping broken walnut shells all over my chair. Honestly, I think I just need a drink.

Lopen,' they'd say, 'you only have one arm, but I see that you can glow. I think that should you kiss me now.

I have to keep moving. Keep working. Don't let the pain take control.

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

Her ne kadar pek çoÄŸu hayatlar?ndan nefret ediyor olsalar da hayata hala dört elle sar?l?yorlard?.

They kill you with fear first and the sword second. Stand your ground.

This far into the Unclaimed Hills, the highstorms were incredibly powerful. The plants had learned to survive. That's what you had to do, learn to survive. Brace yourself, weather the storm.

War means desperation, and desperation is our mother's milk, kid.

Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days, I think. What is belief-what is faith-if you don't continue in it after failure?

Morningtide's Poco pulled upward into a loop—trailed by three Krell ships. Almost there. Almost there! The Krell destructors flared. Hit. Hit again. And then… A burst of light. A spray of sparks. And Morningtide died in a massive explosion. She didn't have a chance to eject.