Quotes About Adversity

Tears will do you no good.

The alligators can get you at any age, Buddy. But the worst thing you can do is freeze.

You can't let fear of hurricanes stop your from putting seeds in the ground, even if they're going to grow tall only to be destroyed.

Well, it's finally happening. Vivi Abbott Walker has gone over the edge. What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale. Although not to many. Vivi ran

Little brother do you hear me Have a heart oh come get near me Misery is not my friend But I'll break before I bend

The tears of our devastation fertilize the soil of our evolution.

Aun la desgracia, para que pueda ser verdaderamente desgracia, tiene que contar con un instante de consuelo; de no ser así, ni siquiera tendría sentido como desgracia.

Croz je mrtev, Carrel zlomený a Taugwalder byl zdiskreditován. A to vÅ¡echno jen proto, že Whymper umí lépe zacházet se slovy než s cepínem.

None of those climbs, including my own, match what Mallory and Irvine did in June 1924. Mallory who gave the mountain a spirit that cannot be captured with radio or telephone equipment, nor seen with telephoto lenses or satellite pictures. Daring to attempt the impossible, risking everything for a dream, and refusing to capitulate in the face of adversity, Mallory, to me, personifies heroism.

Du musst keine schwierigen Wege mehr suchen, sagte ich mir, um an deine Grenzen zu kommen. Auch wenn du keine senkrechten Felswände mehr hochgehen kannst, geh deinen Weg weiter. Die Welt also war nicht mehr dieselbe. Hatte ich aber meine Erfolge nicht auch der Kunst der Anpassung zu verdanken gehabt? Immer im Leben, wenn es kein Weiter zu geben schien, war die Wende gekommen. Oft unverhofft.

Shackleton sice na cestách do vnitrozemí ledového kontinentu neohrožoval Scottovu autoritu, ale jejich charaktery jsou pÃ…â"¢íliÅ¡ rozdílné.

PÃ…â"¢ežití v pustinÄ› si žádá vedení a sou?asnÄ› zaÃ…â"¢azení mezi ostatní.

AÃ…Â¥ je bouÃ…â"¢e, nebo sn?ží, ve white-outu, nebo ve stanu, Wild žalu ostatních nepÃ…â"¢izvukuje. Nikdy.

Scott ve svém deníku oslavoval hrdinskou smrt. A pÃ…â"¢itom je mnohem snazÅ¡í zemÃ…â"¢ít než žít v bídÄ› a trápení. Utrpení Wildových muž? spo?ívá v tom, že pokra?ují i pÃ…â"¢es vÄ›domí blízké smrti.

Te?, po válce, se vÅ¡ak sebeobÄ›tování cení výÅ¡e než umÄ›ní pÃ…â"¢ežít.

Through my failures I have learned how to live - and the more I failed, the more I learned. In my search for the limits, I have failed more than most, and it is this that has made me successful, over and over again.

Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more.

Sous cette brume empoisonnée par leurs fatigues d'hier, des millions d'hommes s'éveillent, déjà exténués d'aujourd'hui.

The walls that might make others feel like they are suffocating have become my lungs.

They can keep men in here, under lock and key, deep in the dungeon until the final moments of their lives, so that men like York and me will never taste the rain. But they cannot keep us from passing our condensation on to the sky. They cannot keep us from raining down in China.

Self-mastery is the ability to be comfortable being uncomfortable

Estamos en guerra. Mi táctica bélica puede resumirse en dos principios. Primero, yo sólo ataco cosas que triunfan, en ocasiones espero hasta que lo consiguen. Segundo, yo sólo ataco cuando no voy a encontrar aliados, cuando estoy solo, cuando me comprometo exclusivamente a mí mismo.

Perdition and evil make life fun, but conflicts eventually arise.

The greatness of Zemurray lies in the fact that he never lost faith in his ability to salvage a situation. Bad things happened to him as bad things happen to everyone, but unlike so many he was never tempted by failure. He never felt powerless or trapped. He was, as I said, an optimist. He stood in constant defiance.