Quotes About Adversity

A dog, a woman, an' a walnut tree, Th' more yeh beat 'em, th' better they be! That's like us.

He had been a mere man railing at a condition, but now he was out of it and could see that it had been very proper and just. It had been necessary for him to swallow swords that he might have a better throat for grapes.

Stephen Crane

A dog, a woman, an' a walnut tree, Th' more yeh beat 'em, th' better they be! That's like us.

This poor gambler isn't even a noun. He is kind of an adverb.

They knew they were going into great danger. They knew they would be doing more than their part. They resented having to sacrifice years of their youth to a war they never made. They wanted to throw baseballs, not grenades, shoot a .22 rifle, not an M-1. But having been caught up in the war, they decided to be as positive as possible in their Army careers.

There is not a day that has passed since that I do not thank Adolf Hitler for allowing me to be associated with the most talented and inspiring group of men that I have ever known." Every member of Easy interviewed by this author for this book said something similar.

El hecho de que oficiales y soldados rasos se vinieran abajo bajo la constante tensión y vulnerabilidad no es nada extraordinario. Lo verdaderamente extraordinario es que tantos hombres no se hundiesen.

If you want to be a hero, the Germans will make one out of you real quick—dead!

McGovern had other problems as well, personal ones with his

Stephen E. Ambrose

How to seperate the humiliation from the loss, that's the catch. You can never be sure if what tortures you is the pain of being without someone you love or the embarrassment of admitting that you have been rejected.

Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.

Life, that can shower you with so much slendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.

Few heroes die peacefully in their beds after long lives filled with happiness.

wisdom is the ability to cope

Agamemnon heaved the gusty sigh of one much put upon by the weight of office, the malice of chance, and the endless incompetence of underlings.

And, if I'm to be honest here, yes, I did indeed stop trying, finally. But the body breathes whether you want it to or not. The heart keeps beating. Perhaps because it knows more than you do--knows that, past this experience, a whole new life will open up, and whatever infirmities persist, they can be dealt with one by one.

When the whole world hurts, you bite it. Don't you?

If one is physically disabled, one cannot afford to be *psychologically* disabled as well.

There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. (...) However bad life may seem (...) While there's life, there is hope.

I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.

No creo que la especie humana haya llegado tan lejos sólo para eliminarse a sí misma cuando las cosas se están poniendo interesantes.

if you feel you are in a black hole, don't give up: there is a way out!