Quotes About Adversity

The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

I lost my legs in a big crash and, of course, after that, there were times, not so much of darkness, but certainly times where it was very uncertain of what my future would hold.

But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear.

It doesn't feel good when you're put down, and especially for no uncertain reason.

I'm the only member of the house, who at age 16, and pregnant, was told in no uncertain terms, I'd never amount to anything.

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

Sports is like a war without the killing.

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety.

After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are.

In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.

One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

When the soldiers stand leaning on their spears, they are faint from want of food.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.

Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist