Quotes About Adversity

When you start a fire, be to windward of it. Do not attack from the leeward.

Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.

Oppression is opposition.

Can't be on the front lines fighting a war with the weapons given to you by the enemy.

Trouble cannot be avoided, you either go looking for it or it will come looking for you.

That youthful enthusiasm for the Resistance was killed off quick in new recruits, if they were not killed off first.

From what I could see, men or women, children or adults, young or aged, rich or poor, war was making everyone equal.

Courage is the counterpoint of fear. Courage appears when in war or business, one is indeed scared.

War is like a fire - if you do not put it out, it will burn itself out.

As a sea is full of drops of liquid, I was but one in the ocean of WarMany are swept ruthlessly into the battering, bashing waves, and only few survive to swim to shore

We were not destined to survive. The fact is, we were not destined at all. The war would take what it could get.

Depression is like war. You either win or you die trying. There's no in between.

Danger has a bracing effect.

You haven't lived a full life until you have been in a very tough situation when you thought you were going to die. War does that to you.

The purpose of Karate is to guide you out of trouble by any means necessary, both in actual combat and in life

Victory will not go to those who can inflict the most suffering, but to those who can survive the most.

Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring.

To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.

When fear meets fear nothing good ever happens.

When fear meets fear nothing good every happens.

Surviving Is the only warWe can afford

What a tale he's told, what a bitter bowl of war he's drunk to the dregs.

If you aren't preparing for life like a war, you'll end up living like a prisoner of war.

If, on the other hand, in the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.