Quotes About Adversity

Don't "but" me, Glokta!' hissed Sult. 'Don't you dare "but" me, not today! You're not half as crippled as you could be! Not half as crippled, you understand?

If men can change like that.' And Monza snapped her fingers in his face. 'That's the only way they do change, ain't it?' His one eye stayed on her. 'If things change enough around 'em? Men are brittle, I reckon. They don't bend into new shapes. They get broken into them. Crushed into them.

We all have luck, good and bad. It's how you meet it that matters

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.

To fight my enemies I need friends behind me, and I'm clean out of friends. You have to be realistic. It's been a while since my ambitions went beyond getting through each day alive.

It is when they truly hate you, after all, that you know you have won. So she met the seething dislike with effortless superiority, paraded past with her shoulders back and chin high. If she was to be cast as the villain, so be it. They were always the most interesting characters anyway.

Si te toca levantar una carga, más te vale levantarla que echarte a llorar

As commander of a battalion his trade had been to fight the enemy with steel. As a staff officer, it seemed, his role was to fight his own side with paper, more secretary than soldier. He felt like a man trying to push a huge stone up a hill. Straining and straining, getting nowhere, but unable to stop pushing in case the rock should fall and crush him. Meanwhile, arrogant bastards who were in just the same danger lazed on the slopes beside him saying, "Well, it's not my rock.

But a man shows his quality when circumstances are against him,

She hated walls. For her, they had always been the jaws of a trap. Ferro frowned at the bed. She hated beds, and couches, and cushions. Soft things make you soft, and she did not need them.

When God means to punish a man, the Kantic scriptures say, he sends him stupid friends, and clever enemies.

He'd been happy to swear it when things were going well and supposed he couldn't just unswear it the moment things turned dicey. What kind of an oath would it be then?

I've always been my own worst enemy," he muttered. "Stick with me, then." Her smile had widened some. "You'll soon have worse.

and you have to have fear to have courage.

Only friends get left behind. Enemies are always at your heels. The

war, plans and reality barely noticed each other in passing. Panicked guesswork was the best one could hope for.

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 halfwits. A great leader puts others before himself. You

Los hombres buenos nunca llegan muy lejos cuando hay que recorrer sendas oscuras.

Yolk grinned. "If there's one thing I'm good at, it's doing things badly.

El valor puede obtenerse de muchos lugares y estar compuesto de muchos elementos diversos, de tal modo que en un momento determinado es posible que el cobarde de ayer se convierta en el héroe de mañana.

Desperation bakes heroes from the most rotten flour,

But there's no beating the Great Leveller. No man comes back from the mud.

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

But a man shows his quality when circumstances are against him, his father always used to say. Where was the glory in easy victories?