Quotes About Adversity

I wasn't picked for any of the sports teams at school because I was half the size of everyone else, but now everyone assumes I must have been some sort of rugby player.

The best teams in Europe play in the Champions League, and when you face them, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

Tough teams win when the shots are not going.

The English teams are very difficult to face.

Sometimes it is difficult to play against teams who just drop back and try to defend.

Why did you come here?" he asked at last "Because you hit me on the head and dragged me here." If I was going to die, I was going to go in true Rose style

Bueno, todos debemos hacer cosas que no nos gustan, la vida es así.

That was nothing. I've talked myself out of much worse.

My battered friends and I had just had a brush with death, dancing with this evil.

Dark times were ahead of us, but with his kiss still burning on my lips, I felt like I could do anything

We all have moments of weakness. It's how we recover from them that really counts.

Even I got turned down by girls, and when it happened, I dusted off my ego and moved on.

El orgullo es lo único que me queda, dice Bao. Es lo único que tenemos. Están quitándonos todo lo demás.

Carter] shook it off. "Don't worry about it. We all have moments of weakness. It's how we recover from them that really counts." (Chapter 19)

We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever," she'd said once. "Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time and place we choose. Not them.

And anyway, for every bad thing in life, there are more good things to tip the balance.

Todo tiene lados buenos y malos. Nosotros solo tenemos que balancearlos lo mejor que podamos.

Life, unfortunately, doesn't seem to care what we want

Why did that hurricane ever have to hit? Why did I ever have to come here in the first place?" "Because," Etienne said gently, "maybe this is the place you're supposed to be.

The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose.

Brooke's deputy, General Sir John Kennedy, observed of Churchill: "He is difficult enough when things are going badly, more difficult when nothing is happening, and quite unmanageable when all is going well.

Roads deteriorated in the autumn rains, and a dearth of spark plugs, fan belts, and tools hampered mechanics; one company with forty-one trucks possessed a single pair of pliers and one crescent wrench.

In a note to a West Point classmate, Eisenhower wrote, "There is no use denying that at times discouragement has piled on top of discouragement.

Merde pour la guerre"—Shit on the war.