Quotes About Adversity

They scorched the earth, destroyed their own homes and fields, took to the hills and the wilderness with their beasts and all they could move, and carried on the struggle by onfall, ambush, cutting supply lines, and constant harrying.

When you have no choice, you must just buckle down to misfortune Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and wait.

Fortunately for the world my generation didn't suffer from spiritual hypochondria - but then, we couldn't afford it. By modern standards, I'm sure we, like the whole population who endured the war, were ripe for counselling, but we were lucky; there were no counsellors.

about him, and that all the signs were that he

when the games going against you, stay calm - and cheat. - Flashman At The Charge

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.

In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer...

In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.

and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse–hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.

In trench warfare five things are important: firewood, food, tobacco, candles, and the enemy. In winter on the Zaragoza front they were important in that order, with the enemy a bad last

Life's here to be lived, and if we're going to be in the soup next week - well, next week is a long way off.

It is always the anvil that breaks the hammer, never the other way about.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

You discover that a man who has gone even a week on bread and margarine is not a man any longer, only a belly with a few accessory organs.

Na bojnom polju, u mu?ilištu, na brodu koji tone, razlozi zbog kojih se boriš uvijek se zaborave jer se tijelo nadimlje sve dok ne ispuni cijeli tvoj svemir, pa ?ak i onda kad te nije paralizirao strah ili ne vrištiš od boli, život je od trenutka do trenutka, samo borba protiv gladi ili hladno?e ili sna, protiv pokvarena želuca ili zuba koji boli.

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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system

the mere difficulty of getting hold of a house is one of the worst aggravations of poverty.

Bisa dikatakan semakin mahal makanan, semakin banyak keringat dan ludah yang harus dimakan.

Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last.

If you are falling from a height it is not cowardly to clutch at a rope.

Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm.

It is the peculiar lowness of poverty that you discover first; the shifts that it puts you to, the complicated meanness, the crust-wiping.