Quotes About Adversity

The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition.

A stray round blasted into her right wing

To meet the depths of defeat is to be better acquainted with courage.

I think most artists will experience a lot of negative people on Twitter but, thank God, I've got so many followers that I'm not able to see them that much. I'll see some from time to time but, for the most part, I always focus on something good.

Showing off her best points was a habit that saved her life more than once.

Balance isn't about never going down, it's about free movement, self-determined movement.

The world can be big, and stink, and it hurts if you fall off, but hey, it's worth trying, mostly, and what doesn't kill you…Well, it doesn't kill you.

To learning experiences, even though they suck.

Two risks, not one. But it was done.

She could not move fast against the weight of water, not against a mounted man, so she did the only thing she could and hurled the boar spear across the horse's path, straight into the bank.

Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.

Quienes gimen sobre la estrechez del medio en que viven pretenden que los acontecimientos, los vecinos, los paisajes, les den la sensibilidad y la inteligencia que la naturaleza les negó.

Resistance is futile when everything in the world is conspiring to destroy what we admire. We are always left, however, with an incorruptible soul, so that we might contemplate, judge, and disdain.

Someone who has been defeated should not console himself with the possible retaliations of history, but with the patent excellence of his cause.

Let us be careful not to call accepting what degrades us without any resistance "accepting life".

Beyond a certain degree of hardship or misery, life often revives and heals the scars. As time passed, deportation [to the concentration camps for the young woman] had become a kind of voyage and even, thanks to the almost terrifying capacity of memory to transform horror into courage, a voyage that she could easily mention. Any way of seeing the world is good, as long as one returns.

Il y a pas une grande sagesse a dire un mot de reproche ; mais il y a une plus grande sagesse a dire un mot qui, sans se moquer du malheur de l'homme, le ranime, lui rende du courage, comme les éperons rendent du courage à un cheval que l'abreuvoir a rafraîchi.

If you are wronged and do nothing but sulk about it, you wrong yourself even further.

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'

Life has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go.

But I get frightened sometimes," she admitted. "I know. Fear is only fear, though." "And somehow you live without it." "No," he corrected her. "You live with it.

We are fish swimming in a cooking pot

Sometimes darkness rode him like a harpy, but still. Funny. My Lord, he was funny. Even when his life was ricocheting from city to wife to book to tragedy—of which there were more than a few—he remained one of the funniest men I ever knew.

Everyone May Have A Different Source Of Inner Strength, Keep Close To Yours.