Quotes About Adversity

Time hasn't been kind." "Time never is. A fighter keeps fighting even so. Thought you were a fighter?

Some would say the best time to cross an obstacle is when one finds oneself on the wrong side of it!

If you're a good man, and you try to think about what the right thing is every day of your life, and you build things to be proud of so bastards can come and burn them in a moment, and you make sure and say thank you kindly each time they kick the guts out of you, do you think when you die, and they stick you in the mud, you turn into gold?' 'What?' 'Or do you turn to fucking shit like the rest of us?

A name to fill strong men with fear or courage, depending on which side they stand.

You can't change the fact the world's full of arseholes. You can only change how you deal with them.

A man is measured by his enemies. Worthy ones can be more missed than friends.

Surprise makes brave men cowards, strong men weak, wise men fools.

There's always a worse case than your worst case, and more often than not, it happens.

Yarvi soon learned only to sip the results, since unwrapping to piss in that cold was an act of heroism that earned grunted congratulations from the others, all the more heartfelt since everyone knew sooner or later they would have to present their own nethers to the searing wind.

Pardon me," said Glokta, wiping his running eye with a finger, "but I spent two years in the Emperor's prisons. I daresay, if I had known I'd be there half that long at the start, I would have made a more concerted effort to kill myself. Seven hundred days, give or take, in the darkness. As close to hell, I would have thought, as a living man can go. My point is this – if you mean to upset me, you'll need more than harsh language.

To be brave among friends was nothing. To have the world against you and pick your path regardless–there is courage.

Unhappy times are the best for levity. You don't light candles in the middle of the day, do you?

Enough pain makes a coward of anyone.

hope's like damp – however much you try to keep it out there's always a little gets in.

I bet you can do better." Luthar was grinning across at Logen. "I got bitten by a mean sheep once, but it didn't leave much of a mark.

They say a man lost in the desert must take such water as he is offered, no matter who it comes from. I

But easy is for the dead,

Every man who's worth a damn feels fear. It's the use you make of it that counts.

Life – the way it really is – is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse' Joseph

Suffering is what gives a man strength, my boy, just as the steel most hammered turns out the hardest." The old man winced as he squatted down beside Jezal. "Anyone can face ease and success with confidence. It is the way we face trouble and misfortune that defines us.

He flowed up to the first wall, slid one leg over it, silent as a mouse. He lifted himself up, smooth as butter, keeping quiet, keeping low. His back foot caught on a set of loose stones, dragged them scraping with him. He grabbed at them, fumbled them, knocked over even more with his elbow and they clattered down loud around him. He stumbled onto his weak ankle, twisted it, squawked with pain, fell over and rolled through a patch of thistles.

All things considered, and well against the run of luck, he reckoned he'd come out alright. Might be he'd lost an eye down here in Styria. Might be he was leaving no richer than when he'd stepped off the boat. But he was a better man, of that he'd no doubt. A wiser man. Used to be he was his own worst enemy. Now he was everyone else's.

Oftentimes,' murmured Whirrun, 'a man's better served embracing his pain than trying to escape it. Things are smaller when you face 'em.

Anyone can face ease and success with confidence. It is the way we face trouble and misfortune that defines us. Self-pity goes with selfishness, and there is nothing more to be deplored in a leader than that. Selfishness belongs to children, and to half-wits. A great leader puts others before himself. You would be surprised how acting so makes it easier to bear one's own troubles. In order to act like a King, one need only treat everyone else like one.