Quotes About Adversity

When being bullied or heckled, refuse to show the emotion the bully wants. Gain the audience's sympathy by trying to look calm and above it all.

We each pace against the bars that cage us." "Your cage is the world," I said in frustration, though I did not mean to strike for his heart. "Everyone's cage is the world. Some worlds are smaller than others.

Most people never choose anything. They are chosen for, or they follow what is left to them after their choices have been eaten away by time, by ill fortune, by their own actions or the deeds of others.

to his everlasting credit, as he fought "that enemy" who, in his words, repeatedly demonstrated "Herculean deeds of valor

Jaycee Clark

Believe in yourself and in your own voice, because there will be times in this business when you will be the only one who does. Take heart from the knowledge that an author with a strong voice will often have trouble at the start of his or her career because strong,distinctive voices sometimes make editors nervous. But in the end, only the strong survive.

If you don't give yourself room to fail, Zack, you'll live your life inside an iron cage that will gradually get smaller and smaller until you can't even breathe.

Any day is a good day so long as you survive to play another day.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it

Il y a l'amour... Et puis il y a la vie, son ennemie.

That's what a man does—he takes a look at the cards life deals out, and he doesn't give up and he doesn't whine about his sorry lot. He hunkers down and figures out what he can do with them.

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

Change your ways when fear seizes," he had said, "for it usually means you are doing something wrong.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Cred - este o credin?? ca oricare alta ?i, fiindc? fericirea ?i nefericirea nu pot fi niciodat? comparate, nu pot aduce dovezi - c? binele este aliatul timpului ?i c?, treptat, pe nesim?ite cu fluctua?ii poate, cu frân?ri bru?te, ?i cu reveniri, el birue r?ul.

When hit in the stomach by a line drive, he wrote his parents that it was "to the great annoyance of that intricate organ, and to the great delight of all present.

Franklin crashed flat on the marble, his crutches clattering down beside him. Onlookers rushed in, then drew back, uncertain what to do. With an enormous effort Roosevelt wrestled himself into a sitting position. He laughed reassuringly. "There's nothing to worry about," he told anxious spectators. "We'll get out of this all right. Give me a hand there.

When this book [So Far From The Bamboo Grove] was accepted for publication, a writer friend told Yoko that now she would be competing with other writers. Yoko said, No, she would not compete with anyone for anything. "I competed with life and death when young," she said. "And I won." ... Here is the story of her victory.

In space, she kept devising new and barbaric forms for herself, for she sensed intuitively that immobility makes it too easy for God to get you in a good wrestling hold and carry you off. So she danced. While walking. Everywhere.

After the drama, he had to live in the tragedy.

Limited by the world, which I oppose, jagged by it, I shall be all the more handsome and sparkling as the angles which wound me and give me shape are more acute and the jagging more cruel.

n'a plus la certitude qu'on va gagner, dans cette lutte contre la méchanceté des collines.