Quotes About Adversity

If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life

Our losses... have reached and intolerable level.

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.

When a man is able to take abuse with a smile, he is worthy to become a leader.

Raul, man, he's like a Twinkie. He would survive a nuclear war.

Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.

I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a few days.

The war brought out all the art in me.

A starving army is actually worse than none.

As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.

In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.

If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.

In the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.

Just because war is hell doesn't mean you can't have a little fun.

Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely

We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.

The enemy is here, and if we do not whip him, he will whip us.

He has lost his left arm, but I my right.

The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.

People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued.

In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.

It's alright if you lose a few battles, but as long as you win the war, that's all that matters.

The man who flies shall fight again. [Lat., Qui fugiebat, rusus praeliabitur.]