Quotes About Adversity

Adam Johnson

If everyone who had it shitty and bit the dust became a fart," he said, "the world would stink to the treetops, you know what I mean?

Jun Do saw a look he knew well from childhood, the look of a boy who thought the next day would be better. Those boys never lasted. Still, Jun Do liked them the most.

But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.

Acts of heroism are easy—becoming a hero is a bitch.

Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone -- Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.

There'd be no story without complications. With nothing to overcome, we'd die unstoried deaths.

Without pain, there is no call for anger, much less rampaging.

Let us be as the Cage has never been able to make us. Let us now all at once face forward in our boxes, still and silent as nightmares. We did.

We can't just have everything without complications, you and I. There'd be no story without complications. With nothing to overcome, we'd die unstoried deaths.

But you do know, as you stand alone, handcuffed, with your eyes filled with tear gas, in front of policemen who are shaking their guns at you-you can see it clearly in the dark and starless night, thanks to your favourite poet - that the course of the avalanche depends on the stone over which it rolls. And you want to be the stone that will reverse the course of events.

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward." Job 5:7

Failure is always an option.

Wow," says Peter, "when your guidance counselor tells you to die, you really have problems.

Problems worthy of attacks, prove their worth by hitting back

I kicked, shouted an obscene word, got another faceful of goo for my troubles, and did the only thing left available to me. I started to laugh. This was a stupid way to die, all right. But also a god damned funny one.

Fears are to be faced, not denied, and life is to be lived, not mourned.

keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as oportunity.

Keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as opportunity.

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

Life doesn't forgive weakness.

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

Obstacles are placed across our path in life, not to be boggled at but to be surmounted.