Quotes About Adversity

Kill the bridge, dammit!" I shouted back. I heard the Sword of Faith come alight in his hands, and a glance over my shoulder showed him hacking through the bridge at his feet as if it had been made of so many soap bubbles. I spun back to the enemy, brought my shield up—and stood tall. "You!" I said, relishing the moment. "Shall not! Pass!" They replied with a hail of automatic weapons fire. The impacts against my shield all but blinded me.

When the enemies of Spire Albion were in the walls, the great-great granddaughter of old Admiral Tagwynn had refused to have a good lie-down, and it was as simple and as profound as that.

It's not the valleys in life I dread so much as the dips.

had been taught long ago never to whimper or moan or to blame someone else for his troubles. Life is tough, so accept the consequences. With the good also comes the bad, and vice versa.

Even the most powerful enemies who threaten or oppress God's children will one day fall.

What you think to be a tragedy id God's opportunity to show Himself faithful.

Together with God you can successfully handle any difficulty.

Adversity gives you the opportunity to exhibit godly character.

Opposition should never keep you from the work God has called you to do.

We survive by learning from pain

I'm not worried about you because you don't get it your own way. You never have, and believe it or not, that makes you extraordinary.

The more Wayne inhabited Edison, the more he wondered how a man cultivates a stubborn streak so pronounced that it transforms a daily barrage of failures into stimulants.

Well, I've been down so Goddamn long, that it looks like up to me.

Be always like the sea, than breaking up against cliffs it finds always the force to try again.

Riders on the storm, riders on the storm Into this house we're born Into this world we're thrown Like a dog without a bone An actor out on loan Riders on the storm

The world was a shitpot with a barbed-wire handle and the further he could kick it the better he liked it.

You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off.

They had no hope of anything more, no comprehension that there might be anything more. In a sense they were an autonomous body, functioning within a society which was organized to grind them down. The law did not protect them; for them it was merely an instrument of harassment, a means of moving them on when it was against their interest to move, or detaining them where it was to their disadvantage to stay.

That was the way one had to do. To do the best one could, and accept things as they were. Usually, they did not seem so bad after a while; if they were not actually good, then they became so by virtue of the many things that were worse. Almost everything was relatively good. Eating was better than starving, living better than dying

They lost an awful lot of games by one run, which is the mark of a bad team. They also lost innumerable games by fourteen runs or so. This is the mark of a terrible team.

but I like who I became just fine. That's the way life is. We all try to make something out of our lives, and some of us are just luckier than others.

I was born Katie O'Reilly," she began. "Poor Irish, but proud of it. I boarded the Titanic at Queenstown as a third class passenger with nothing more than the clothes on my back. And the law at my heels." Titanic Rhapsody

Every abyss is navigable by little paper boats.

O correr da vida embrulha tudo, a vida é assim: esquenta e esfria, aperta e daí afrouxa, sossega e depois desinquieta. O que ela quer da gente é coragem