Quotes About Adversity

Hmph," she said. "I'd like to see you learn how to manage sitting and standing up straight in stays and petticoats and a dress with a foot's worth of train!" "So would I," said Gideon from across the room.

Win?" Call said, startled. It hadn't occurred to him that Master Rufus was expecting them to win the test. Not after a whole onth of sand. "We're not going to win." He was mostly concerned with whether they would survive. "That's the spirit." Aaron hid a grin.

People could bear so much, but Simon did not know how much of the original you was left when the world had twisted you into a whole different shape.

Heroes aren't always the ones who win. 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.

I want my people to be protected, strong, and not to be driven into corners until they either become killers or are killed!

Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made

James had never imagined that the hardest thing he would ever do in his life was nothing at all.

Ragnor and Catarina both begged him to give the instrument up. Random strangers on the street begged him to give the instrument up. Even cats ran away from him.

Simon looked down at himself and took it all in. The billows of the shirt. The deep, chest-exposing V. The tightness of the leather. "Why is it," he said after a moment, "that whenever I think I've found the most terrible thing that could happen to me, I'm always wrong.

It's already bad. I'm honestly not sure how much worse it's going to get. Notice that I didn't say couldn't get worse. It can always get worse. I know this. And thus I refuse to tempt fate. Superstitious -- probably. But magic exists. So does karma, and karma can be a bitch.

I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that an 'Iron Chef ' actors, musicians, artists and all successful people have probably been bullied in their life. And the best part of your life is yet to come. Whatever it takes to live, do it!

You can do one of two things. You can bury you head in the sand and believe what everyone tells you - that you will always be that young, that thin and that fabulous. Or you can use all the things you have - talent, contacts, knowledge - and do something different.

From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health.

I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.

I was of the "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, then wonder why life didn't give you freaking sugar so you could drink the stuff" school of thought.

Good Lord, if Incy could be helped… then I was a freaking picnic.

Life goes on. We just have to find the strength to face it sometimes, and the only way we can do that is to reach deep for faith and believe with all our hearts.

Bad things happen, Mathew. We can't see them coming, and there's often nothing we can do to prevent them. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't all live life to its fullest.

Adversity is when a hero's two options are both bad.

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Get over it,' Sherlock said, and looked at her husband. 'No, no, bad dog, keep quiet.

You're going to live. That's not to say you're going to be happy for a while, but it beats the alternative.