Quotes About Adversity

Suffering is humbling. It pays to know how to get your butt kicked.

Strictly by accident, Scott stumbled upon the most advanced weapon in the ultrarunner's arsenal: instead of cringing from fatigue, you embrace it. You refuse to let it go. You get know it so well, you're not afraid of it anymore[...]You can't hate the Beast and expect to beat it; the only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it.

Strictly by accident, Scott stumbled upon the most advanced weapon in the ultrarunner's arsenal: instead of cringing from fatigue, you embrace it. You refuse to let it go. You get to know it so well, you're not afraid of it anymore.

crap out of him," said Dusty Olson, Proctor's star jock when he and Scott were teenagers. During cross-country runs, Dusty and his buddies would pelt Scott with mud and take off. "He could never catch up," Dusty said. "No one could understand why he was so slow, because

When it comes to mentors, you can't beat survival;

If he could do it, Churchill was certain, so could his fellow misfits.

Because that's the ugly truth about heroism: the tests don't start when you're ready or stop when you're tired. You don't get time-outs, warm-ups, or bathroom breaks.

That's what I'm saying,' Scott insisted. 'I've been there, man. I've been there a lot. It takes more guts than going fast.

Because that's the ugly truth about heroism: the tests don't start when you're ready or stop when you're tired. You don't get time-outs, warm-ups, or bathroom breaks. You may have a headache or be wearing the wrong pants or find yourself—the way Norina did—in a skirt and low heels in a school hallway becoming slick with your own blood.

Make friends with pain, and you will never be alone.

If you keep just close enough for it to see you, it will keep sprinting away. After about ten or fifteen kilometers' worth of running, it will go into hyperthermia and collapse." Translation: if you can run six miles on a summer day then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom.

Caballo había pasado tantos años navegando estos caminos que tenía apodos para las piedras que encontraba bajo sus pies: algunas eran «ayudantes», porque te permitían dar el paso con potencia hacia delante; otras eran «embusteras», porque parecían ayudantes pero rodaban a traición cuando despegabas; y algunas eran «chingoncitos», pequeños cabrones listos para hacerte caer. —

Christopher McDougall

Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

He was willing to wait until the last dollar was broken: in the meantime he was content. You never know the soul of a city, he said, until you are down on your luck. Now, he felt, he had been here long enough to understand her.

The greatest enemy is one that has nothing to lose.

Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads.

Christopher Paul Curtis

Christopher Paul Curtis

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am.

A Hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.