Quotes About Adversity

I don't care if you're spoiled, for God's sake! I'm spoiled. We're all spoiled, life does that. It's what you do with yourself after you realize you've been spoiled that matters. It's the life you make in the ruins.

Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional.

Here's the thing about failure in innovation: it's a price worth paying. We

Kasyanov, I think I've made it pretty clear," Lachance said. "Our attitude controls is damaged beyond repair, retro capability is down to thirty percent. Several containment bulkheads are cracked, and there's a good chance if we initiate thrust we'll just flash-fry ourselves with radiation." He paused briefly. "We do still have coffee, though. That's one positive.

We'll start a whole new human race," Hoop quipped. "With respect, Hoop, I believe Ripley would eat you alive.

She fell, rolled, kicked out with one boot. The alien tripped over her leg and went sprawling, spilling one queen's egg onto its side. Ripley screamed in pain as her wounded leg was jarred, but then she was standing again, aiming the charge thumper and firing her last shot into the monster's face.

The bad stuff never stops happening: it lives in its own dimension, repaying itself over and over.

They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy, really. Go limp and tumble to the ground and let the muscles unwind and not speak and not budge until your buddies picked you up and lifted you into the chopper that would roar and dip its nose and carry you off to the world. A mere matter of falling, yet no one ever fell. It was not courage, exactly; the object was not valor. Rather, they were too frightened to be cowards.

The greater a man's fear, the greater his potential courage

Every dark cloud may well have its silver lining, but I have come to learn that every silver lining has its dark consequences.

The greater a man's fear, the greater his potential courage.

Each morning, despite the unknowns, they made their legs move.

I keep trying to find a way to tell this story, to explain how things went bad

There's a way out of every disaster except your last one.

Los mares y los climas son lo que son; los navíos solo pueden adaptarse a ellos o hundirse. Jack Shandy

Time to experiment. Necessity being the motherfucker of whatever is in its way.

Jesus, I told meself, harden the fuck up. She heard me say that once, Mum. To me little cousin out by the laundry where he was bawling, his knee bleeding a tiny bit. She had that disgusted look on her face. What? I said. I didn't do nothin. You're no better than your father, she said. Listen to you, Jaxie, you sound just like him. I didn't talk to her for three days.

Not everything that is faced can be changed," Baldwin instructs, "but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

No one is immune from failure. All have tasted the bitterness of defeat and disappointment. A warrior must not dwell on that failure, but must learn from it and continue on. But

Refusing to be intimidated, after all, didn't mean deliberately asking for trouble.

No one is immune from failure. All have tasted the bitterness of defeat and disappointment. A warrior must not dwell on that failure, but must learn from it and continue on.

But we will succeed. I've seen the future, Jorj. We will succeed, because we have no other choice. -Thrawn

The odds are never impossible," Thrawn said calmly. "Merely unfavorable.

I've never had to find a hard question in my life," she countered tartly. "They've always found me first.