Quotes About Adversity

I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I thought it looked great! I didn't understand why anyone else didn't think so.

There weren't any fairy tales in the streets around me. If there was ever a Cinderella, her glass slippers shattered under her weight and she limped home bleeding from the ball.

The day I was born, my house burnt down; the day I left home, the Twin Towers burnt down; and I lived in a jungle in India at 15.

Growing up, we didn't have anything. My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then foster homes before me and my little brother went back to her. I was passed from pillar to post.

I've been stabbed before. Barely a week ago, in fact. AND I've been audited, AND I come from a broken home. In short - no offense, shorty - you don't scare me.

If I listened to my critics, I would still be at home under my bed right now.

I've been followed home late at night. I've been shot at on the highway.

I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.

It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.

I know the territory, I've been around. It'll all turn to dust, and we'll fall down, and sooner or later you'll be screwing around.

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

If seizures can't stop me, nothing can.

I'm lucky I'm a comedian, 'cause otherwise my life would just be a series of undocumented low points.

Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?

A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

I see crosses at every turn. My flesh shudders over it, but my heart adores them. Yes, I hail you, crosses little and great, I hail you, and kiss your feet, unworthy of the honor of your shadow.

I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.

The journey of high honor lies not in smooth ways.

Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.

Riches, honors and pleasure are the sweets which destroy the mind's appetite for heavenly food; poverty, disgrace and pain are the bitters which restore it.

If I rise up again against the foe, dare I stand alone?

Some disappointments honor those who inspire them

Honor doesn't revise according to company just as integrity doesn't diminish due to circumstance.

There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426