Quotes About Adversity

the boy walks another soldier, another one bright heart not yet cooled to hard iron

Felisin Paran - she had no luck at all, and when good things showed up, rare as that was, well, she didn't know what to do or say. A person hurts enough inside, all they can do is hurt back.

Bridgeburners get pounded all the time. We just get back up. No bluster, just back up, aye.

People either had strength or they didn't. The weak ones left her disgusted, welling with dark contempt. If they chose at all it was ever the wrong choice. They let the world break them time and again, then wondered – dull-eyed as this ox – why it was so cruel. But it wasn't the world that was the problem, was it? It was stepping into the stampede's path over and over again.

Life stays stubborn until it has no choice but to give up, and even then it's likely to spit one last time in the eye of whatever's killed it. We're cruel in victory and cruel in defeat, my friends.

How much could be stripped from a people before they began stripping away themselves? The steep slope of dissolution began with a skid, only to become a headlong run.

There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.

The harder the world, the fiercer the honour.

One of the quips Reagan scribbled on a notepad after waking up after surgery was Winston Churchill's famous line from his autobiography My Early Life that "there is no more exhilarating feeling than being shot at without result.

I always tell my clients that they can learn a lot by watching and analyzing other companies that are in crisis, especially competitors. (As that great philosopher Yogi Berra once said, "You can observe a lot by just watching.") For one thing, if a company in your industry group suffers a crisis, could you be next? Figure it out and govern yourself accordingly.

There must come a point where so much has been turned to rubble that ruining a little more makes no difference. It's possible that point has already been reached. Does a person work the same way?

Look, I tried to get a paper route instead, but the newspapers keep burning up on reentry.

Money doesn't solve all problems, I thought. It just makes new ones.

I thought, Or maybe drowning wasn't as scary as what they had to face every day.

Let failure be your workshop. See it for what is is: the world walking you through a tough but necessary semester, free of tuition. (from Workbook)

mentor once told me that every dead end shows you more clearly the pattern of the labyrinth, that each one you encounter gives you one more piece of information that'll help you as you methodically fail your way to success. That's how he put it: failing your way to success.

An event in which you did not achieve your desired outcome (definition of failure).

When you believe in your heart that God is truly sovereign and that He loves you more than you love yourself, you will experience a supernatural peace and joy even amid extreme adversity, hardship, and suffering.

Even if you fail at your ambitious thing, it's very hard to fail completely

It's better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.

I'd think you'd be about tired of things happening," Silas grunted. Creed laughed. "When a man gets tired of things happening, he's tired of life, my friend. I ain't that far down the road just yet.

I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.

When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.