Quotes About Adversity

Take the eighteenth-century general who had fallen into disfavor with the great Prussian warrior king, Frederick the Great. Coming upon the king, the general saluted him with the greatest respect, but Frederick turned his back. "I am happy to see that Your Majesty is no longer angry with me," murmured the general. "How so?" demanded Frederick. "Because Your Majesty has never in his life turned his back on an enemy," replied the general.

Winston Churchill once quipped, "The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." He

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There was an old saying about a rock and a hard place.

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by Matt Jensen, who had himself

hire you to make sure that doesn't happen.

to search for another handhold. A

At least, I did. And I think Chester did, too. In World War II. It's something every combat vet has to live with. Once a person has learned how to survive, and what must be done, that instinct lies just below the surface, very thinly covered with a civilized veneer.

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William W. Johnstone

Advice his father had given him years before sounded in his mind: "In most of what you face, son, you'll make it through if you don't give in to panic." He

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muscle. They didn't expect any problem with

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William W. Johnstone

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Those people do love to cling to their God and their guns, don't they? Well, they're just going to have to learn to accept that those days are over. This is just the beginning

But, there! - Persons and Things do turn up so vexatiously in this life, and will in a manner insist on being noticed.

What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind.