Quotes About Adversity

Caesar remarked wryly: "I have often fought for victory, but on this occasion I fought for my life as well.

When things are as bad as they can be, fate finds a way to deliver another blow.

Octavian's surviving ships were blown against the craggy coast and pounded against the rocks

Another dark night of traveling through mountains ensued—and, surely, a dark night of the soul

It was about growing in more efficient ways. That seemed like a reasonable idea. Why would it meet with such fierce resistance?

If you think it's hard getting in, you should try getting out.

We're all on the road to ruin but some are further ahead than others.

Give him his due: this is a man who has always faced his fears square on, whether they be a deadly swamp adder, a hideous poison that might drive you to insanity or a hell-hound set loose on the moors. Holmes has done many things that are, frankly, baffling – but he has never run away.

We need our literary heroes. Life is dark and complicated but they shine out. They're the beacons that we follow.

These people...I've never come across anyone like them. You want the truth? They make Scorpia look like a vicar's tea party.

Well, you know, it's been one of those years." It always was, where Michael was concerned. He'd turned gloom into an art form.

Don't be sorry. Our lives don't belong to us so we can't complain if they're taken away." Those were the words that Alex remembered when, half an hour later, the lights blinked out

Bond knew it was over. This was it. But he also knew what he was going to do. Even as he had been speaking, he had been lowering himself imperceptibly, inch by inch, simply by bending his knees. The rain had helped him. It was driving into the Russian's eyes. He hadn't seen what Bond was doing. The Russian fired at point-blank range. He had been aiming directly at Bond's chest.

It's always been my belief that the best way to weaken your enemies, whether they are bullies, politicians or unpleasant relatives, is to laugh at them.

I had expected to die on many occasions before now. You might even say that death has been a companion of mine, always walking two steps behind. Well, now he has caught up.

Shi bai kepu seck yi!

I do not know what has brought you here or how you have been driven to an action as extreme as the one you are now contemplating,' he said. 'You must be very unhappy. Of that I am sure. Will you believe me if I say that no matter how bad things may appear, they will be better tomorrow if you allow tomorrow to do its work? That is the way of things, Miss Mitchell, and I am the living proof of it.

The thing is, Alex, you're never really in control, whatever you may think. Just keep paddling and never fight the current because the current will always win.

A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

I am okay doing negative role provided it is out of the box.

Charles Wyly was born Oct 13, 1933, in Lake Providence, La., and for a period lived with his family in a shack without electricity or plumbing.

It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!