Quotes About Adversity

Unos días eres el parabrisas y otros días eres el insecto. Algunas veces el viento sopla a tu favor

Out there beyond this brief charmed circle, all around them, invading even our own minds, was something that disbelieved and destroyed and defeated. She knew it and recognized its power and yet she would never cease to deny it. In this moment of large weakness she suddenly knew large strength, a core buried deep within her that would refuse to be daunted by the outrageous blows or the niggling trifles human life was heir to.

The bigger they are the harder they fall.

You think you have won, but you haven't. Although I can't get the coon, neither can you live, because I have cut off your breath of life.

You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

There is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at with no result.

Danger: if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

The Pessimist Sees Difficulty In Every Opportunity. The Optimist Sees Opportunity In Every Difficulty.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Nations that went down fighting rose again, but those who surrendered tamely were finished.

As one's fortunes are reduced, one spirit must expand to fill the void.

When we face with a steady eye the difficulties which lie before us, we may derive new confidence from remembering those we have already overcome.

When I hear a man say that his childhood was the happiest time of his life, I think (puff) my friend, you have had a pretty poor life.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal

Man will occasionally stumble upon the truth but most times he will pick himself up and continue on.

Thus far then have we travelled along the terrible road we chose at the call of duty. The mood of Britain is wisely and rightly averse from every form of shallow or premature exultation. This is no time for boasts or glowing prophecies, but there is this: A year ago our position looked forlorn, and well nigh desperate to all eyes but our own. To-day we may say aloud before an awe-struck world: 'We are still masters of our fate. We are still captain of our souls.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

When men are fighting for their lives they are not often disposed to be complimentary to those who are trying to kill them.

when you're going through hell, keep going.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result