Quotes About Adversity

THE STORM OF WAR A NEW HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

take it.' London could take anything. My heart goes

Disaster and treating 'those two impostors just the same'. She added, 'Remember that

I have never been seduced by prosperity; adversity shall find me superior to its blows.'79

Men can be unjust towards me, my dear Junot,' he wrote to his faithful aide-de-camp, 'but it suffices to be innocent; my conscience is the tribunal before which I call my conduct.

The future is a matter of contempt for those with courage. - Napoleon Bonaparte.

When you make some great mistake,' he philosophized, 'it may very easily serve you better than the best-advised decision.

They looked like scarecrows,' Slim said of his troops. 'But they looked like soldiers, too.' He also recalled the heart-rending sight of a four-year-old child in Imphal trying to spoon-feed her dead mother from a tin of evaporated milk.

Chapter XVIII – Everything That Could Possibly Go Wrong

I don't know why I have a pattern of running into hand-destroying situations, but that seems to be my lot in life.

I don't know why I have a pattern of running into hand-destroying situations, but that seems to be my lot in life. Maybe I need to figure out how to make magical prosthetics. I should research that later.

I hurt like someone had decided to play the drums on my ribs with a mace, but I didn't think anything was actually broken. That might sound a little strange, given that this monster had both the mass and the general disposition of a siege engine, but I'd never actually managed to find anything that could break my bones.

a strategic inflection point is a time in the life of business when its fundamentals are about to change. that change can mean an opportunity to rise to new heights. But it may just as likely signal the beginning of the end

That day, getting through my world was like trying to swim in a pool of warm mayonnaise while carrying two bowling balls.

I hold together pretty well, considering how much my atoms have been through.

And you can't see around corners. so you just have to deal with it, and try to stay afloat. And things get tough. And you're supposed to grow up. And it's all a bunch of bullshit. Sorry.

It's no wonder I became a monster, too.

I came unglued and went back together the wrong way and fell apart again.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.

Psychologically, I will not have to seek far if I decide to kill myself, because in my mind and heart I am more ready for this than for the unplanned daily tribulations that mark off the mornings and afternoons.

Are you better on your worst day to beat your opponent on their best?

Life is a fight, but not everyone's a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.

People won't let you live the way you want to, but if you're strong enough or quick enough, at least you don't have to live the way they want you to. I live, though, no matter what.