Susanna Clarke Quotes

The best work usually meets the strongest opposition.

That is a trial I must face," Veka said. "No, that is a multiheaded snake thing, Jig snapped.

Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Every time somebody calls me out or tries to start something, it's motivation.

Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

The fight's the fight.

I know the position I'm in. Guys are going to try and take me out, but I got to be able to overcome it all and not let those type of things affect me.

We learn to fight and to grow strong by fighting.

Expand your notion of what adversity is.

When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery.

You have to be able to swim in backlash.

I was raised to face any challenge.

Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.

Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

The harder they hit, the more encouraged I get.

Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.

Before the storm comes the calm. Hope you can take the heat like LeBron

Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.