Quotes About Adversity

when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offences, but never resentful of great ones.

You are my evil spirit, you and the hard, coarse world! The leaden thoughts and the despondency that you fling upon me are my clogs, else I should long ago have achieved the task that I was created for.

Families are always rising and falling in America.

Long, long may it be, ere he comes again! His hour is one of darkness, and adversity, and peril. But should domestic tyranny oppress us, or the invader's step pollute our soil, still may the Gray Champion come

After seventeen days, one of the crew suggested that they cast lots. As it turned out, the lot fell to the man who had originally made the proposal, and after lots were cast again to see who should execute him, he was killed and eaten.

To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me.

I've always known that I had the happy facility of making enemies of any one I ever knew

Pritisnila je na gumb dvigala. Šla bo in kupila letalsko vozovnico. Svoboda, ki jo iš?e, je njena, ne Satakejeva, ne Jajoina, ne Jošijina, in prepri?ana je bila, da mora biti tam nekje zunaj. ?e so se za njo zaprla še ena vrata, nima druge izbire, kot da najde nova in jih odpre. Dvigalo, ki ji je prišlo naproti, je je?alo kot veter. END.

Fortune may shine brightly on a woman like that, but the shadow cast is long and dark.

In the end, his trials with Masako had been the hardest ones...but they weren't really trials or tasks or tests at all: they were just facts that he could do nothing about. And that in itself was probably the real test: his ability to accept something that was completely beyond his control. It made him want to cry.

Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.

Life is all about mistakes.It is constant change and growth

Most people have two emergency modes. Fight and Flight. But Conner always knew he had three. Fight, Flight, and Screw Up Royally.

One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.

Sure, when you're in the midst of your own suffering, it's easy to convince yourself that you're no good—but we are all tested in this life...The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

Good in Crisis; Sucks at Normal.' That about sums up my whole life, doesn't it?

The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back.

Adulthood can do the most horrific things to the best of people.

Lev looks at Risa, almost afraid to ask the obvious question. Finally he says, 'Uh...why do we have a baby?' 'Ask him ,' says Risa. Stone-faced, Conner looks out of the window. 'They're looking for two boys and a girl. Having a baby will throw them off.' 'Great,' snaps Risa. 'Maybe we should all pick up a baby along the way.

On a sunny Tuesday - for it seems so many awful things happen on a Tuesday - six astronauts and one schoolteacher attempted to pierce the sky. Instead they touched the stars.

I begin to wonder if David was like me. Seeing monsters everywhere and realizing there aren't enough slingshots in the world to get rid of them.

They say you never know who's the real hero and who's the real coward until you're looking death in the face. I've always been afraid of plenty of things, but fear isn't what makes you a coward. It's how depraved your heart becomes when fear gets pumped through it.

Leadership is about keeping toilets flushing, the Admiral once said. Unless you're on the battlefront. Then it's about staying alive. Neither are pleasant.

Like everything else in his life, he crashed forward, caution the first casualty.