Quotes About Adversity

Clutch the bramble, and you will be pricked

You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyways.

I'd run. But maybe you can't run. Think of that, too.' His yellow eyes seemed to look inward, and he sounded tired. 'Sometimes you can't run.

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.

hope is like a piece of string when you're drowning; it just isn't enough to get you out by itself." Egwene

If you do not learn from your losses, you will be ruled by them.

Sometimes, Gareth Bryne had told her when she was a child, you find yourself outnumbered, with no path to slip away. Always do what your enemy least expects, Elayne. In that case, you must attack.

I never heard of forkroot, but walking seems to help the effects pass. You can walk most things off.

It is all right to plan for the worst possibilities, but you must not bask in them. You must not fixate on them.

Strangely, she still felt no fear. She thought if she survived this, she would never feel fear again.

What had to be endured, could be.

Well, heroes got patted on the head, then pushed out of the way until the next time a hero was needed, if they survived being a hero in the first place. Very often, heroes did not.

Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses too long

It could crush you, that despair. But the act of creating something—anything—fought back.

They made Rand's bile rise. Use what you must use, or let the Shadow cover the land.

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect. Hold on to your heart

But hope is like a piece of string when you're drowning; it just isn't enough to get you out by itself.

For him to be in this condition almost robbed Rand of what courage he had managed to gather. But he had to keep on. That was all that kept him moving. He had to.

The whole world rides on your shoulders. Remember you're a man, and do what needs to be done.

You say you won't take risks, but you will. And when you do, you'll make anything Beslan and I might try look like an evening stroll in the garden. With you around, even the barber is blind.

I did not come here to win, I came here to kill 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." Moiraine nodded. Surrender after you are dead. Yes.

Well, Mat thought, guess I can take that. For now.

In the Borderlands, her people had a saying: "Only the Dark One stays the same." Men grew and progressed; the Shadow just remained as it was. Evil.