Quotes About Adversity

Humankind is made for uncertainly, struggle, choice and change.

A man is an oak, a woman a willow," the saying ran. The oak fought the wind and was broken, while the willow bent when it must and survived.

On the heights, the paths are paved with daggers.

Courage is a well,' Viendre said at Elayne's ear, 'deep in some, shallow in others. Deep or shallow, wells go dry eventually, even if they fill again later. You will face what you cannot face. Your spine will turn to jelly, and your vaunted courage will leave you weeping in the dust. The day will come.

Who would sup with the mighty must climb the path of daggers.

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect. Hold on to your heart, and the Aes Sedai cannot harm what is really you, your heart.

A drum with no head," Easar said softly, flicking his horse's reins. "A pump with no grip. A song with no voice. Still it is mine. Still it is mine.

His academic failure forced him to develop unconventionally, free of the social straightjacket that might have constrained his progress to well-worn paths.

The cards are stacked, against any original mind, and perhaps properly so.

Ramanujan had lost all his scholarships. He had failed in school. Even as a tutor of the subject he loved most, he'd been found wanting. He had nothing. And yet, viewed a little differently, he had everything. For now there was nothing to distract him from his notebooks- notebooks, crammed with theorems, that each day, each week, bulged wider.

Viewed one way, then, for at least five years between 1904 and 1909, Ramanujan floundered- mostly out of school, without a degree, without contact with other mathematicians. And yet, was the cup half-empty or half-full?

Robert Kirkman

The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems.

Life pushes all of us around. Some people give up and others fight. A few learn the lesson and move on. They welcome life pushing them around. To these few people it means they need and want to learn something.

Life pushes all of us around. Some people give up and others fight. A few learn the lesson and move on. They welcome life pushing them around. To these few people, it means they need and want to learn something. They learn and move on. Most quit, and a few like you fight.

Žmon?s yra dviej? r?ši?. Vieni pasiduoda sunkumams ir eina pasroviui, kiti supyksta ir ima priešintis savo vargams.

Life is the best teacher of all. Most of the time, life does not talk to you. It just sort of pushes you around. Each push is life saying, 'Wake up'. There is something I want you to learn.

Reputation became the pirates' sharpest sword.

treasure is crisis, because what you get in the end is yourself.

pumpkin-sized potholes

As Nagle spiraled deeper into alcoholism and resentment, Chatterton managed much of his friend's business, so that the Seeker could remain viable.

When things are easy a person doesn't really learn about himself. It's what a person does at the moment of his greatest struggle that shows him who he really is. Some people never get that moment.

There were more preposterous vicissitudes in life than a single philosophy could conjure.

We're a couple of ciphers who got pushed around. We don't know what happened; just that we don't like it.