Quotes About Adversity

We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.

The war has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage.

Where I lived in Glasgow looked like Dresden after the war. It was a bomb site. I don't think I'd ever played football on grass until I moved to Australia.

After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capitulation, and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews.

When you go out on to that field it's going to be war. Sportsmanship is playing to the best of your abilities and then, afterwards, shaking your opponent's hand.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

That man will fight us every day and every hour till the end of the war.

I was a ward of the state, initially, and then in the foster care system for quite some time, even though I did live part-time with my aunt in Brooklyn.

Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

That feeling when you're so cold you'd give anything to be warm - I've had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.

Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.

You don't learn anything from success. You know, it's comfortable, it's nice, it's warm, but success just leaves you kind of feeling a little bloated.

In California, my mother had raised me mostly alone. We didn't have many things, but she is warm, and we were happy. We moved a lot. We rented.

I haven't fought for a while and didn't want a warm-up fight. I wanted to jump right back in the pit and I got what I asked for. I got Anthony Pettis.

Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to.

A man was defined, in my father's circles, by what he could bear, the pain he could shrug off, the warmth or comfort he could deny himself.

That attitude that I wouldn't succeed didn't come from my family; it came from school and then the township we lived in. I wasn't going to settle for that, and my mother warned us not to settle for less, to make the most of our lives.

I was the best guy, you know, all through Little League and Pop Warner and that kind of stuff. But when I went to high school, I was undersized. I didn't grow. I was behind the whole puberty cycle. I didn't like high school.

Rodeo careers can end without warning, as quick as the next try at an eight-second ride.

People are always warning me that I'm going to burn out. But the truth is, the only thing that tires me out is hearing people tell me that. Opposite shows, opposite coasts, opposite demographics, opposite everything - I love it, man!

Even Warren Buffet is allowed to have an awful year from time to time.

I think that in order to be a film director, one has to be a warrior who shouldn't be defeated by the daily onslaught of problems.