Quotes About Adversity

Thirteen broken bones and a punctured lung. You must have been put on this earth for a reason, little girl, to have survived.

I have been to the edge and lived to tell the tale..

What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale.

It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control.

Keep your stick on the Ice

I left home because I was hungry.

We were poor. If I wasn't a boy, I wouldn't have had nothing to play with.

Reed Farrel Coleman

The problem with life was that even if you didn't go looking for trouble, trouble sometimes came looking for you.

Alex glanced at Sam and David, who looked soberly back at him. "Okay guys? Remember your training: 'A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must desire life like water and drink death like wine.

The sense of danger made her lift up her head higher. There were battles coming. But life was meant to be a battle, wasn't it? There was nothing to fear.

The path to truly new, never-been-done-before things always has failure along the way.

Was life measured by the trouble you avoided, or by the obstacles you overcame? God had made her for trouble, equipped her for hardship. She'd do her share and then some. Most of all, she'd buttress the man who faced the dangers for all of them. He wouldn't do it alone. Not while she had blood pumping in her veins.

My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

We all march to the drum,"she murmured."However we are raised, however we are trained, it never seems to leave us. Do you think we can break free?" . . . "We can all learn,"he answered."All grow and change. That choice is ours to make.

It's perfectly acceptable to survive, even if others didn't.

This gift prevents us from weakening, from letting ourselves be disheartened, and it lifts up our courage in the midst of difficulties.

Opposition comes to those who have taken a position.

Hope is a black beetle. Stamp on it hard as you liked, it still scuttled on

Look, this boy's been kicked around all his life. You know-living in a slum, his mother dead since he was nine. He spent a year and a half in an orphanage while his father served a jail term for forgery. That's not a very good head start. He's had a pretty terrible sixteen years. I think maybe we owe him a few words. That's all.

After every few steps, we huddle over our ice axes mouths agape, struggling for sufficient breath to keep our muscles going.... at a height of 8800 metres, we can no longer keep on our feet while we rest. We crumple to our knees, clutching our axes.... Every ten or fifteen steps we collapse into the snow to rest, then crawl on again.

ÚspÄ›ch, který skon?í ve straÅ¡né katastrofÄ›, je nejhorÅ¡í ze vÅ¡ech porážek.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Il faut être l'homme de la pluie et l'enfant du beau temps.