Quotes About Adversity

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Great abilities are rare, and they are often accompanied by qualities which make the abilities useless to him who has them, and even injurious to society.

They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes

Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.

You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.

I should have known better, of course. Whenever I'm feeling up to the mark and congratulating myself, some fearful fate trips me headlong, and I find myself haring for cover with my guts churning and Nemesis in full cry after me.

We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down.

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

Llevaba seis meses a sus órdenes, haciendo vida propia de un animal, degradado ante sí mismo, amoscado por las risas ajenas, perdido, perseguido, sobrecogido y, por así decirlo, marcado o herrado, para luego dejar que el proceso se repitiera.

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.

Oh, so Mother Nature needs a favour? Well maybe She should have thought of that when She was besetting us with droughts and floods and poisonous snakes. Nature started the fight for survival and now She wants to quit because She's losing? Well I say 'Hard Chesse!

Imagine a man in the ditch,The wheels of the overturned wreckStill spinning—I don't mean he despairs, I mean if he does notHe sees in the manner of poetry

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.

In the face of pain there are no heroes.

No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, God will never desert us, He never has, and He never will.

Si dejas que se den cuenta de que sus palabras te hacen daño, jamás te librarás de las burlas. Si te ponen un mote, recógelo y transfórmalo en tu nombre.

There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.

Syrio says that every hurt is a lesson, and every lesson makes you better

Hold yourself.. why Winter is coming." Eddard Stark

Let me give you some advice, bastard. Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor. And it can never be used to hurt you.

oh, don't look so aggrieved. I have never met a man I didn't provoke" ~ Asha Greyjoy (from a Feast For Crows)

Even a man who had survived a hundred battle can break in his hundred-and-first.

Between the plan and the fulfillment lies always the hazard: heartbeat flutters, knife flashes, horse stumbles, cancer grows, more subtle foes invade