Quotes About Adversity

He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure Ã¢â'¬â€œ the pain of failure that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.

We're both travelling bad roads and all bad roads lead to the bad town.

Well, if he had to die anyway, he might as well try it the hard way.

I'm a slow learner. It's true. But I learn , I can't deny it.

You're a kite dancing in a hurricane, Mr. Bond.

I've heard it argued that long ago pain begat consciousness...Adversity forced awareness on us, and it works, it bites us when we go too near the fire, when we love too hard. Those felt sensations are the beginning of the invention of the self...God said, Let there be pain. And there was poetry. Eventually.

He knew from long experience that a letter sent in fury merely put a weapon into the hands of your enemy

Adversity forced awareness on us, and it works, it bites us when we go too near the fire, when we love too hard. Those felt sensations are the beginning of the invention of the self. And if that works, why not feeling disgust for shit, fearing the cliff edge and strangers, remembering insults and favours, liking sex and food? God said, Let there be pain. And there was poetry. Eventually.

He knew from long experience that a letter sent in fury merely put a weapon into the hands of your enemy. Poison, in preserved form, to be used against you long into the future.

Past a certain age, men froze into place; they tended to believe that, even in adversity, they were somehow at one with their fates. They were who they thought they were.

Adversity forced awareness on us, and it works, it bites us when we go too near the fire, when we love too hard. Those felt sensations are the beginning of the invention of the self. And if that works, why not feeling disgust for shit, fearing the cliff edge and strangers, remembering insults and favours, liking sex and food? God said, Let there be pain. And there was poetry. Eventually. So what's the use of

A country overwhelmed by evil has more dignity than one tripped up by fools.

Good luck is a skill, and bad luck simply the product of poor choices and overlooked opportunities. In other words, tough luck.

Musashi. As one of the two most heavily armored ships in the world, she could take a great deal of punishment, and she had—more than twenty bomb hits topside, and about nineteen or twenty torpedoes below the waterline, including fifteen in her port side.

THE MARINES ENDURED.

others, the story losing

they knew they were slaying Peterson by their endurance just as he was slaying them with his cruelty.

On these scorched lands, they'll never reap anything but a black harvest," predicted Hajj Khaled.

Just reflecting on the fact that when the Universe punches you in the teeth, it never just lets you fall down. It kicks you in the ribs a couple of times and dumps mud on your head.

If the lot of you survives, Curran will flay the skin off your backs, Doolittle said. That's what I always love about you, Doctor. Raphael grinned. You're a cup-halfway-full kind of guy. All flowers and sunshine.

The only people who can have normal are the ones unaffected by all the fucked-up shit that happens around them." - Curran

Bad days, good days, 'I'll cut you if you look at me the wrong way' days. I'll take them all.

On your best day, you're only as good as I am on my worst with one arm tied behind my back.

I almost had her. Curran nodded. I heard. And you could've taken her, too. My voice came out flat. Rub it in, why don't you. He grinned. No time for that now, maybe later. I closed my eyes. There wouldn't be any later. Are you imagining me rubbing it in? he asked.