Quotes About Adversity

If truly tested, how would we react?

You know why you keep losing, 'cause, guess what, you're a fucking loser.

I know they say that's the way the cookie crumbles and all. But you can't help but wonder why there's any cookie-crumbling going on in the first place.

She'd survived because the fire inside of her burned brighter than the fire(s) around her.

Even the reverend did: visiting Martin Luther King in his parsonage, soon after his home had been bombed, a journalist was about to sink into an armchair when he was alerted to a couple of loaded guns on it. 'Just for self-defence,' King explained.

Precisely the hopelessness of the situation constituted the nobility of this resistance.

Let the failures of today be the springboards for tomorrow. If you let them they will lead you to even more successes!

Enjoy the war,' read the graffiti left on Berlin's walls. 'The peace will be terrible.

there is a certain freedom to being totally f#cked...

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.

Alexander (grinning): When Darius was scorching the earth, devastating villages and spoiling provisions, it drove me round the bend, but now indeed what have I to fear, when he gives me a battle to contend?

Alexander (at the trial of Philotas): How much happier to have fallen in the fighting, felled by a foe, rather than die by a countryman's blow! Now, preserved from the only perils that I feared, I am beset by threats that should never have appeared.

B)ut really, it doesn't matter how big the army is—we just have to deal with the enemies at the very front...We don't have to defeat a whole army all at once. If we fight smart and we don't panic, we'll be good.

Change couldn't be stopped...but people always had choices, didn't they? Even if change was being forced on you...you still had a choice: You could either give up and accept someone else's ideas about change, or you could fight for the kind of changes you believed in.

If you cannot love the pain, you can at least love the lessons it teaches

If you're going through hell, keep going [as stolen from Winston S. Churchill]

That kind of love was a thing to be snatched up and crushed in the jaws of real life.

Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat...

The serpent tries to engulf my head. No, not a snake, an oxygen mask.

Even monkeys fall from trees.

It's our scars that make us who we are.

A catastrophe is an opportunity.

As my grandmother told me — never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, but the pig likes it. So ignore him and vote, Florida!"

Andrew Gross