Quotes About Adversity

You'll be quoting from Braveheart next.' 'They can take our women! They can take our freedom, and our deep-fried Mars Bars! But they'll never take our shitey weather,

Life goes on. The rules were this: you might sit for a time on the sidelines feeling overwhelmed and paralysed by it all. But sooner or later you picked yourself up and got on with it, or you were left behind.

He was right: she'd turned a shit situation into a slurry of blood-flecked diarrhea.

early development of the region's secret police. Through both reading and conversations, I sought to understand how ordinary people learned to cope with the new regimes; how they collaborated, willingly or reluctantly; how and why they joined the party and other state institutions; how they resisted, actively or passively; how they came to make terrible choices that most of us in the West, nowadays, never have to face.

Lageris buvo sunkiausias m?s? moralin?s stipryb?s,m?s? kasdien?s moral?s egzaminas ir 99 proc. jo neišlaik?,-raš? Šalamovas.

supported him. Now suddenly, he felt his position had

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

some people need a hard lesson in order to learn and grow—and some people are the hard lesson.

You always believed we could survive in the outside world. I'm doing everything I can to give at least some of us a chance of not only surviving but truly living.

Don't let them win. Fight with everything that's in you.

You can't fall if you're already on the floor when you faint. Words to live by.

Insidious bastard," she whispered. "I don't know how you gave me that gut-jab of fear, but I won't forget you can use my own heart against me. I won't give up the landscapes in my care. Not even this one. And I won't let you have any of them. I'll find a way to do alone what it took hundreds like me to do the last time. And by the time I'm finished, I will lock you in a landscape even *you* will find unbearable.

Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." [ Meditations Divine and Moral ]

If we had no winter the spring would not be so pleasant.

It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.

The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.

If you would have your son to walk honorably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.

Because the road is rough and long, Shall we despise the skylark's song?

But he who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

A Chinese proverb reminds us: You cannot prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.