Quotes About Adversity

You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure of who you are.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.

The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.

Zhukov was the most successful commander of World War II, who fell from grace under Khrushchev, but never lost his place in the pantheon of Soviet heroes.

As a result of the cold, the machine-guns were no longer able to fire...the result of all this was a panic...The battle worthiness of our infantry is at an end

The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered on a new and enlarged arena.

Face your fear Accept your war it is what it is.

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

The battle is going very heavily against us. We're being crushed by the enemy weight. We are facing very difficult days, perhaps the most difficult that a man can undergo

The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.

They no longer had nor could find any arrows, javelins or stones with which to attack us.

I am well versed in reading the pages of war.

The more comfort the less courage there is.

Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.

We may be annihilated, but we cannot be conquered.

He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.

In war you see your own troubles; those of the enemy you cannot see. You must show confidence.

War is the only game in which both sides lose.

I would fight them if they were a million!

We will breakfast together here and dine together in hell.

War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them.