Quotes About Adversity

I just know once you're over your emotional outbursts, you'll come up with-' I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something,' Westley said.

Westley closed his eyes. There was pain coming and he had to be ready for it. He had to prepare his brain, he had to get his mind controlled and safe from their efforts, so that they could not break him. He would not let them break him. He would hold together against anything and all. If only they gave him sufficient time to make ready, he knew he could defeat pain. It turned out they gave him sufficient time (it was months before the Machine was ready). But they broke him anyway.

Inside and out, Westley's world was ripping apart and he could do nothing but crack along with it.

He was the mighty Fezzik, lover of rhymes, and you did not give up, no matter what.

As long as you think you can fight your way out of trouble, you will never be able to fight your way out of trouble.

don't come out all that well a lot of the time, but that can't be helped.

Estaba abrumado, sitiado, asediado. Derrotado. Por el hombre de negro.

any experience is profitable if you allow it to be, all actions are profitable, no matter how badly you may suffer from them.

If you write movies, you never know who the enemy is. Someone is going to fuck you, that's a given.

Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it's never going to be.

Morgenstern has never given them an easy shot at happiness. This time I sure hope he lets them get there.

The man in black retreated before the slashing of the great sword. He tried to sidestep, tried to parry, tried to somehow escape the doom that was now inevitable. But there was no way. He could block fifty thrusts; the fifty-first flicked through, and now his left arm was bleeding. He could thwart thirty ripostes, but not the thirty-first, and now his shoulder bled. The

En Mongolia perdió a sus padres. —Fezzik, hemos hecho por ti todo lo que hemos podido. Buena suerte —le dijeron, y se murieron.

It was too unfair. You expected unfairness if you breathed, but this went beyond that.

you would never in this world have beaten him. But I tell you this: he would never in this world have beaten you.

The penalty of ceasing an aggressive behavior toward the hardships of life on the part of mankind is, that we go backward. We

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

Perhaps one of my own advisors will grow jealous of my power and try to kill me. Or someone may spread lies about me, to turn the people against me. It may be that a neighboring kingdom will send an army to seize this throne. Or I might make an unwise decision that will bring my downfall. If you want to be a leader, you must be willing to accept these risks. They come with the power, you see.

Teddy Roosevelt said that "far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat

It is not for me to declare a winner in this fight," he told them. "Truth and Falsehood are destined to struggle. Sometimes Truth will win, but other times Falsehood will prevail, and then Truth must rise up and fight again. Until the end of the world, Truth must battle Falsehood, and must never rest or let down his guard, or he will be finished once and for all." And so Truth and Falsehood are fighting to this day.

do every day or two something for no other reason that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

Great emergencies and crisis show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

I used to ask for an easy life, now I ask to be strong.