Quotes About Adversity

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

We dared not charge them except all together... for they were so numerous that they could have blinded us with clods of earth, if God, of His great mercy, had not aided and protected us.

To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind

The quality of life in our world does not depend on the conflicts that arise, but on our response to them.

At least we're getting the kind of experience we need for the next war.

I had an attack of the gout two days before pulling out, and I went limping off to the war instead of coming limping back from it.

¨ Oh, I´m not complaining. I know there´s a war on. I know a lot of people are going to have to suffer for us to win it. But why must I be one of them?¨

In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult.

We are ready to try our fortunes to the last man.

Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms.

Courage is being afraid - and going ahead, anyway.

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to simulate: war.

Funny,' Will said, as they picked their way through. 'Things are absolutely awful and yet people look much happier than usual. Look at them all. Bubbling.' 'They are English,' Merriman said. 'Quite right,' said Will's father. 'Splendid in adversity, tedious when safe. Never content, in fact. We're an odd lot….

My daddy says that when you do somethin' to distract you from your worstest fears, it's like whistlin' past the graveyard. You know, making a racket to keep the scaredness and the ghosts away. He says that's how we get by sometimes. But it's not weak, like hidin'...it's strong. It means you're able to go on.

My daddy always said being brave wasn't not being scared. Being brave was keeping going when you were.

I had to hold on to the mad so the sad didn't drown me.

being brave wasn't not being scared. Being brave was keeping going when you were.

Sometimes laughin' is all a body can do, child. It's laugh or lose your mind.

This is a real pain in the neck," said Brandon M., wearing a yoke to carry two buckets of water.

You shouldn't dare a person who doesn't have anything left to lose.