Anne Rice Quotes

He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed.

Courage is the most important of the virtues because it is the one that makes all the others possible.

Through adversity we find our heroes.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

The force of character is cumulative.

My mother is my hero just because, what life becomes about is overcoming adversity, and I watched her overcome so many things in life but still able to smile. See it's one thing to overcome adversity and to be scarred and to carry that with you but when you have somebody overcomes adversity and they're still able to smile that's something else. That's true strength.

The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period.

Enemies are an indication of character.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men.

Where is your ancient courage? You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits; That common chances common men could bear; That when the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating.

It is an important part of our life’s experience to develop the strength, courage, and integrity to hold fast to truth and righteousness despite the buffeting we may experience.

Adversity creates heroes.

The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves. All of these people who are heroes, these guys who have been lily white and clean all their lives, if they went through what I went through, they would commit suicide. They don't have the heart that I have. I've lived places they can't defecate in.

The true hero is flawed. The true test of a champion is not whether he can triumph, but whether he can overcome obstacles - preferably of his own making - in order to triumph.

Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.

Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.

You may look through the streets of heaven, asking each how they came to b there, and you will look in vain everywhere for a person who is morally and spiritually strong, whose strength did not come to him in struggle. There is no exception anywhere. Every true strength is gained in struggle.

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same.

There's something about strength that I really admire, that I failed to see a lot of when I was growing up.