Quotes About Adversity

If you have to be burned at the stake, be a good fellow and collect your own fire-wood.

was much easier to deal with hassles while they're still in the yellow-alert stage.

He had enough troubles, he thought, without inventing new ones for the future. He was middling lost, starving, and with an excellent chance of never returning to the house alive. Floods and earthquakes and plagues of locusts were rather unnecessary.

Excuse me, Scopus," Beric said quietly, "I am perfectly ready to fight with this bragadocio, and challenge him to a contest; a few hard knocks will do neither of us any harm, therefore let us go into the school and have it out, It is much better so than to have perpetual quarrelling.

every time you lose, you die a little, inside. Not all your organs...maybe just your liver.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

They were the stumbling blocks, not MacArthur.

If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.

Failure teaches you everything—you learn nothing from success.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

As in the inflammations and fevers of physical illness, what looks like trouble may be the very process by which healing takes place. As we become better able to endure life's slings and arrows, our coping mechanisms mature, and vice versa.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Boot camp was . . . being treated like a criminal. It was like I had broken a law by joining the Marines and had been sent to reform school.

That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.

To be successful in life, you must get in the habit of turning negatives into positives.

They'll take everything, even your tears.

Empires always spawn demons,

It rolled over you like old oil from a fryer.

Her life was broken like a mirror and the shards kept cutting her fingers.