Quotes About Adversity

Jeffrey Archer

anyone can be a good winner. The sign of a great man is how you handle defeat.

I was born near Slonim. I saw my home taken over by the Germans, my sister raped by the Russians and later I escaped from a Russian labour camp and was lucky enough to reach America. I'm not mad. This is the only country in the world where you can arrive with nothing and become a millionaire though damned hard work regardless of your background.

They tried everything to break her, and they failed.

Very few entrepreneurs don't have setbacks along the way,' said Alex. 'According to Galbraith, the wise ones chalk it up on the blackboard of experience and move on.

Some people stand by you in your darkest hour, while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends. Once

It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, Stay there. Don't move.

Though at this moment she felt abused, abandoned, and ashamed of herself, Madeleine knew that she was still young, that she had her whole life ahead of her--a life in which, if she persevered, she might do something special--and that part of persevering meant getting past moments just like this one, when people made you feel small, unlovable, and took away your confidence.

When we asked him to sum up his impression of the girls' emotional state at that point, he said, Buffeted but not broken.

The following doodle: a girl with pigtails is bent under the weight of a gigantic boulder. Her cheeks puff out, and her rounded lips expel steam. One widening steam cloud contains the word Pressure, darkly retraced.

Speramus meliora; resurgret cineribus. We hope for better things; it will rise from the ashes

Buffeted but not broken.

Certain "advanced" girls understood. Others, like me, thought: knife wound, bear attack.

Before long, Commander Lovell—the man who had orbited the moon in a spacecraft that had done everything right—would learn what happens when a ship does everything wrong.

I've had the wind knocked out of me, but never the hurricane

I mean, six years ago my electricity's being cut off and my car's getting repossessed and I'm being evicted from my apartment, and now I'm all Yeah, havin' dinner with Rudy in the Hamptons, what of it?

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

You know what? We need a recession in this country, because that would finally weed out all the subnormal, underdeveloped, stupefied, puerile people in this workforce.

Nobody who ever accomplished anything big or new or worth raising a celebratory fist in the air did it from their comfort zone. They risked ridicule and failure and sometimes even death.

The only failure is quitting. Everything else is just gathering information.

In the past, I was a perpetual victim; how I was doing in any given moment depended on what happened to me. Today I do my best to avoid this kind of 'victim thinking.' Instead, how I am doing is determined by how I respond to what happens to me.

There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

I've learned that you can get through things that hurt. Nothing will kill you. Nothing. People are unbelievable. we have such resilience.

You can either be angry or be a martyr, or you can say, 'You've got lemons? Let's make lemonade.