Quotes About Adversity

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

While growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world. I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own reality.

Every hero is scared. That-s what being brave is about - confronting fear.

If he came back in and ventured just a step too close to me, I would do it. I had been tempered in a furnace of Stickings' making, and I had come out stronger.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it? To be dragged under?

Shit happens. But so does magic." ~ Celia Wird, SEALED WITH A CURSE: A Weird Girls Novel

But optimism dribbles away when horror repeats.

Get off that damn chair and pull yourself together. You're supposed to be an ageless creature of chaos and all I'm getting right now is sulking city boy.

It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, he said, Roseanna Roseanadana, it's always something. If it isn't one thing--it's another! It's always something.

Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.

The devil tempts us to bring out the worst in us, but the Father tests us to bring out the best in us.

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act.

If all opposition were curtailed, if all maladies were removed, then the primary purposes of the Father's plan would be frustrated.

Father said conflict develops the character

If necessity is the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got by. People were tougher then.

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

I was the youngest of nine siblings... I lost my father when I was just 13. For me, the elders have been my gods.

I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.

I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this story.

Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.