Quotes About Adversity

You are a Seminole alligator wrestler. Half naked, with your two bare hands, you hold and fight a sentence's head while its tail tries to knock you over.

No one ever said it would be easy

The Germans were still hunting Alek, trying to finish the job they'd started on his parents. Someone had to be on his side. And, as Deryn had gradually admitted to herself these last few days, she didn't mind if that someone wound up being her.

Never happens. I've spilled more times than a glass of milk on a roller coaster.

life is problematic, so novels must be too.

If you choose to go hard after God, you'll experience more adversity than you would encounter if you played it safe, but you'll delight in more power and love than you ever dreamed possible.

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Bound for Glory

The more you're challenged, the more rigidly you assert your beliefs. You have nothing to lose because without your beliefs you're nothing anyway: they make you what you are. It's shit or bust.

They had seen things no human eyes had looked on before, and they had not turned their gaze away. They were in their own view a formidable group of men. No inferno would now melt them, no storm destroy, because they had seen the worst and they had survived.

Adversity often leads people to depend more on one another, and that closeness can produce a kind of nostalgia for the hard times that even civilians are susceptible to.

The one thing that might be said for societal collapse is that—for a while at least—everyone is equal.

Some of these people have been heading there, unavoidably, for months; others made a bad choice just a few days ago.

The men could only look at each other through the falling snow, from land to sea, from sea to land, and realize how unimportant they all were. —SHIP ON THE ROCKS, NEWBURYPORT, MASSACHUSETTS, 1839, NO SURVIVORS. (SIDNEY PERLEY, Historic Storms of New England, 1891)

The poor have always walked and the desperate have always slept outside. We were neither, but we were still doing something that felt ancient and hard. Most Americans did not own a car until after World War Two, and traveling often meant walking out your front door and not stopping. [...] We walked around four hundred miles and most nights we were the only people in the world who knew where we were. There are many definitions of

The reprieve doesn't last long though; within a couple of hours the waves are back up to 70 feet. A 70 foot wave has an angled face of well over 100 feet. The Seastate has reached levels that no one on the boat, and few people one earth, have ever seen. When the Contship Holland finally limped into port several days later, one of the officers stepped off and swore he would never set foot on another ship again.

It may be unpleasant, but it's preferable to getting killed.

In the long run, early failure is probably just as great a generator of freedom as early success.

He had survived two days in his underwear on the North Atlantic. Later, when asked how long it took him to warm up after his ordeal, he said, without a hint of irony, "Oh, three or four months.

If failure is not an option, then neither is success.

Passion can overcome fear - the fear of losing, of failing, of being traditional.

All coping does is waste your time and misdirect your energy. If the best you can do is cope, you're better off quitting.

Teaching Fire a Lesson Fire is hot. That's what it does. If you get burned by fire, you can be annoyed at yourself, but being angry at fire doesn't do you much good. And trying to teach the fire a lesson so it won't be hot next time is certainly not time well spent. Our inclination is to give fire a pass, because it's not human. But human beings are similar, in that they're not going to change any time soon either.

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.