Quotes About Adversity

Madison Cawthorn

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

We all fall to the floor at some point. It's how you pick yourself up that's the real challenge. Isn't it?

Power is being told you are not loved... and not being destroyed by it.

Threats don't work with the person who's got nothing to lose.

A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

In gloomy moments, I think we are allowed to stay alive here but not to live, much less to enjoy ourselves or take pleasure in what we see when we look out of our windows or walk around our streets. If we have the fortitude to get up out of bed in the morning and get going to face the day, we should also have the freedom to rejoice, and I think the freedom to rejoice is being denied us when our senses are dulled at every turn by streets that are inimical when they are not simply sad.

Sadness keeps attempting to tie weights to her wrists and ankles, therefore she has to keep moving, she has to outpace it.

You need a plan," she hears—or seems to hear—her old nurse, Sofia, say, from a place near her elbow. "To lose your temper is to lose the battle.

THAT THE THINGS IN LIFE WHICH DON'T GO TO PLAN ARE USUALLY MORE IMPORTANT, MORE FORMATIVE, IN THE LONG RUN, THAN THE THINSGS THAT DO

You see, she says to him, you cannot change what you are given, cannot bend or alter what is dealt to you.

There will be no going back. No undoing of what was laid out for them. The boy has gone and the husband will leave and she will stay and the pigs will need to be fed every day and time runs only one way.

Maggie O'Farrell

Grinding her teeth together, she hoped the bastards weren't cheering yet, because it was going to take more than one bullet to kill Jenny Jones.

Her silver spoon was gone. She wasn't coming back.

A man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every gust of wind.

If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.

Fear—real, honest-to-God debilitating fear—is an affliction.

Those men are wise who do not desire the unattainable, who do not love to mourn over what is lost, and are not overwhelmed by calamities.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.