Quotes About Adversity

Well, the sword that could not be broken was shattered in the end, sheepherder, but it fought the Shadow to the last. There is one rule, above all others, for being a man.

It is all right to hate them, Egwene. It is. They deserve it. But it isn't all right to let them make you like they are.

There must be a difference in what you saw, it seemed to him, depending on whether you sought adventure or had it forced on you.

Lan shook his head slightly. "He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.

An argument must have opposition if it is to prove itself, my son," she said. "One who argues truly learns the depth of his commitment through adversity. Did you not learn that trees grow roots most strongly when winds blow through them?

Peel the apple in your hand, girl, not the one on the tree, Lini's thin voice seemed to whisper in her ear. Tears are for after; they just waste time before.

As many roads down as up, and the roads down as slippery as the others.

Heroes in the stories never had to sleep in haystacks, or under hedges. But it was not easy to pretend, anymore, that he was a hero in a story.

If a sword had memory, it might be grateful to the forge fire, but never fond of it.

The secret, it turned out, had not been to harden himself to the point of breaking. It had not been to become numb. It had been to walk in pain, like the pain of the wounds at his side, and accept that pain as part of him. Two

Leaders in stories never had to put up with this sort of thing.

Sometimes you had to laugh if only to keep from crying.

Take life as it comes. Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.

Not all options will be good ones. Sometimes you have to make the best of a bad lot and ride the storm.

Afterwards, we will do as we must. As we do now.

when a dangerous path was your only route to safety, you had to take it.

You'll use it, boy, and as long as you hate using it, you will use it more wisely than most men would.

There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet. Now

What could not be changed must be endured.

You can't patch a hull when the whole boat's burned.

Boy, the Creator never made the Houses. Some forget it, but go far enough back in any House, and you'll find a commoner who showed uncommon courage or kept his head and took charge when everybody else was running around like plucked geese. Mind you, another thing some like to forget is the road down can be just as sudden.

legalább maradj talpon, úgy fogadd el az elkerülhetetlent. (...)

If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping;