Quotes About Adversity

I talk with the authority of failure.

Smart men play close to the line because they have to--some of them can't stand it, so they quit.

Ne gariptir, ac?dan kaç?nmaya çal???rken, bazen bizi o noktaya getiren ayak izlerinin bir bir üzerinden geçmek gerekebilir.

Now there was this scarcely saved waif of disaster bringing him the essence of a continent...

Is your generation so soft that they talk of going to pieces if life doesn't always present itself in terms of beautiful, easy decisions?

Professor Dohmler raised himself like a legless man mounting a pair of crutches.

Oh, many things. I've led a very active life. Knocked about here and there. (His tone implies anything front lion-stalking to organized crime.)

She told herself that the years had brought her tolerance—actually they had slain what measure she had ever possessed of moral courage.

Give me a hero and I'll give you a tragedy.

I've never met a man who led a rotten life and didn't have a weak will.

you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

You were brought up to work — not especially to marry. Now you've found your first nut to crack and it's a good nut — go ahead and put whatever happens down to experience. Wound yourself or him — whatever happens it can't spoil you because economically you're a boy, not a girl.

Well, I've had a very bad time, Nick, and I'm pretty cynical about everything.

Et nous luttons ainsi, barques à contre-courant, refoulés sans fin vers notre passé.

Misfortune is liable to make me a damn bad man.

So we beat on, boats against the current.

Ci sono soltanto perseguitati e persecutori, affaccendati e stanchi.

she had learned that being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

It was the story of her life and probably how she had survived this long: with a little talent and a lot of flair.

She was too hurt to cry….You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.

Remember, if people talk behind your back, it only that you are two steps ahead of them.

A heart can be broken but it keeps on beating just the same ~ Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Nothing had come easy to him. School, sports, or girls... it seemed to Oswald that everyone else had come into this world with a set of instructions but him. From the beginning he had always felt like a pair of white socks and brown shoes in a roomful of tuxedos. He had never really gotten a break in life, and now it was all over.

she had learned that being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome. And