Quotes About Adversity

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Friendship throws a greater lustre on prosperity, while it lightens adversity by sharing in its griefs and troubles.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

I have lost everything, Han thought. Then he corrected himself. Every time I think I've lost everything, I find there's still something else to lose.

Just a rat, she repeated to herself. After all, there were rats in the palace. Human and otherwise. Could be worse.

Like a stand of lodgepole pines in a gale Raisa's followers all went down leaving her standing alone....There's no shelter for me not from any of this. I'll stand alone the rest of my life. THE GRAY WOLF THRONE p. 163

You ever notice how sometimes, in the middle of July, right downtown, you'll see a flower poking up through a crack in the asphalt. And you think, What a stupid place to set down roots. It'll get run over, or it'll dry up and blow away. But it hangs on, and it grows, and it blooms. Somehow, against the odds, it finds what it needs and it makes that place better for being there.

We may all end up dead, but we're sticking it to them in the meantime.

I have to think it's possible to suffer a great wrong and walk away from it. To build a life of small, exquisitely important moments.

It was just a different kind of battle, one he'd have to learn to win

Believe me, there is no one more dangerous than one whose hopes have turned to despair.

Every time I think I've lost everything, I find there's still something else to lose.

She might be building a house around a single brick, but this brick was all she had.

You don't have to understand, you just have to survive.

I'm not going to let you hit me anymore," Han said quietly. "I've already had one beating today. That's enough.

Nah," Han said, falling into his old habit of making a bad situation worse.

Courage wasn't lack of fear - it was doing what needed doing in the face of it.

We don't protect them because they're weak. We protect them because they are strong, and strong people make enemies.

I'm no healer," Han growled, thinking he seemed to be better at causing pain than relieving it.

You can't always pick where you fight, or who you fight...or even...how you fight. But do the picking...whenever you can.

Guess you're not used to targets that shoot back.

Even when we win, we lose, Lyss thought.