Quotes About Adversity

Fearlessness is a fool's boast, to my mind. The only men with no fear in them are the dead, or the soon to be dead, maybe. Fear teaches you caution, and respect for your enemy, and to avoid sharp edges used in anger. All good things in their place, believe me. Fear can bring you out alive, and that's the very best anyone can hope for from any fight. Every man who's worth a damn feels fear. It's the use you make of it that counts.

Nothing was easy with people, but she could always count on herself to make things more difficult than they had to be.

The ground must be a general's best friend, or it becomes his worst enemy.

You will be struck, and when you are the force of it must not stagger you, the pain of it must not slow you, the shock of it must not cause you to doubt.

I see you hurt your face." She shrugged. "I fell. I'm a clumsy fool." "I know how you feel. I'm such a fool I knocked half my teeth out and hacked my leg to useless pulp. Look at me now, a cripple. It's amazing where a little foolishness can take you, if it goes unchecked. We clumsy types should stick together, don't you think?" She looked at him thoughtfully for a moment, stroking the bruises on her jaw. "Yes," she said, "I suppose we should.

No soy un guerrero. —Sí que lo eres. —Un guerrero no se asusta. —Un necio no se asusta. Un guerrero resiste a pesar del miedo, y tú has resistido.

Nem lett volna szabad reménykednie, de a remények olyanok, akár a gyom: mindegy, milyen gyakran tépi ki az ember, mindig újra kihajtanak.

Progress just means bad things happen faster." Terry Pratchett

there was an awful lot a man could be saying fuck about. That's the beauty of the word. It can mean just about anything, depending on how things stand. Horror, shock, pain, fear, worry. None were out of place.

Hate us if you like. We're used to it. No one likes to shake hands with the man who empties the latrine pit either, but pits have to be emptied all the same. Otherwise, the world fills up with shit.

This wasn't fantasies, it was life. And life had a habit of kicking her in the cunt. But

it was strange how circumstances would rarely let one be the hero, however much one might want to be. However much one might deserve to be.

But a man lost in the desert, as the Gurkish say, must take such water as he is offered.

I have spent half my life in the business of destruction. The other half in the dogged pursuit of self-destruction.

Why don't you got a man, Shy?' 'Don't like men much, I guess.' 'You don't like anyone much.' 'They started it.' 'All of 'em?' 'Enough of 'em.

But we must work with the tools we have, as Savine's father had been so fond of saying.

Life rarely turns out the way we expect. We must bend with the circumstances.

It is hard to lose something." Skara turned back toward the towering truss. "But it gives you the chance to make something better.

Self-pity was for children and half-wits.

No reason to let the edge grow dull, simply because I have run out of enemies. New enemies will present themselves, before too long.

Suffering is what gives a man strength, my boy, just as the steel most hammered turns out the hardest.

Some things have to be done. It's better to do them than to live with the fear of them. That's what my father used to tell me.

The Northman chuckled. 'Fearlessness is a fool's boast, to my mind. The only men with no fear in them are the dead, or the soon to be dead, maybe. Fear teaches you caution, and respect for your enemy, and to avoid sharp edges used in anger. All good things in their place, believe me. Fear can bring you out alive, and that's the very best anyone can hope for from any fight. Every man who's worth a damn feels fear. It's the use you make of it that counts.

Bad news is never a surprise. Just a disappointment.