Quotes About Adversity

Como marinheiros, todos temíamos o afogamento, mas nenhum de nós alguma vez borrara as calças quando uma tempestade arrancara o mastro e o cordame ou uma onda esmagara a amurada e limpara o convés. Era essa a diferença: o mar respeitava a nossa masculinidade. Os canhões não.

HISTORY shows, then, that as a result of these unusual forces in the education of the Negro he easily learns to follow the line of least resistance rather than battle against odds for what real history has shown to be the right course.

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

Setbacks are stepping stones to something better.

Adversity is the litmus of faith, and only by continuing on in a spirit of total determination and self belief do we achieve what we set out to do.

You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?

What's the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you have someone to throw against it, that's what I always say.

Heroes aren't always the ones who win," she said. "They're the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don't give up. That's what makes them heroes.

As far as I'm concerned, this is the worst thing that's happened since I found out why Magnus was banned from Peru.

A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.

Despair and Genius are too oft connected

More brave than firm, and more disposed to dare And die at once than wrestle with despair...

And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.

You can send a man to hell, but you can't make him suffer.

With every mistake, we must surely be learning.

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.

It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound eventually to be right.

was fighting his mind first, and his fear of admitting the existence of an identifiable enemy element that was oppressing us because that would either commit him to attack that enemy or force him to admit his cowardice.