Quotes About Adversity

Old birds are hard to pluck.

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.

Han lå på sengen og stirret opp i bjelkene. Han var nydusjet og plastret, og følte seg ikke verre enn Olav den Hellige etter slaget på Stiklestad. Og den karen hadde jo vokset betydelig etter sine strabaser.

Who are you, world, that you should frighten me?

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.

Men are wretched by necessity, and determined to believe themselves wretched by accident.

Dico che il mondo è una lega di birbanti contro gli uomini dabbene, di vili contro i generosi.

They had read of the albatross in the book of the bombed-out palace.

A door opened for you by God's hand, is too big for any man to slam on your face.

Here was a man who wore his scars on the outside and held a merry heart within. How much better that was than its opposite.

The dwarf and the woman, lucky miscreants, outlanders, errors that should not exist but lived on anyway. (314)

We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.

You know, that's all basketball is. If someone loves something, and you take it away, it's like what does he do now? What does someone do? That's what happened with me.

It's hard to get recognition when your team is losing.

The thing that happened in Washington -- it happened. All you can do is just grow from it. That took a toll on me. That was probably -- I think if I could've bounced mentally out of that situation faster than I did, I would probably still be in the NBA. But since I couldn't understand why they were trying to treat me like that, I basically gave up. I just didn't want to be a part of it anymore.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.

It's always something.

Difficulties existed only to be surmounted, and there was no setback that a little thought and determination could not overcome.

I want to follow him over the snows between the immaculate earth and now, between the silence and the shot that rang over the ice at the top of the globe, when the map of the earth was something we knew by heart, and they had not shot the bear, had not loosed the ice, had not, had not....

You may be weaker than the whole world but you are always stronger than yourself.