Quotes About Adversity

During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.

I could not live without Champagne. In victory I deserve it. In defeat I need it.

There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from success.

One must never forget when misfortunes come that it is quite possible they are saving one from something much worse; or that when you make some great mistake, it may very easily serve you better than the best-advised decision. Life is a whole, and luck is a whole, and no part of them can be separated from the rest.

In one respect a cavalry charge is very like ordinary life. So long as you are all right, firmly in your saddle, your horse in hand, and well armed, lots of enemies will give you a wide berth. But as soon as you have lost a stirrup, have a rein cut, have dropped your weapon, are wounded, or your horse is wounded, then is the moment when from all quarters enemies rush upon you. Such

Bolsheviks create their own difficulties which they successfully overcame later.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, Wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, Are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." —Lady Diana Cooper, 1965

One must never forget when misfortunes come that it is quite possible they are saving one from something much worse; or that when you make some great mistake, it may very easily serve you better than the best-advised decision.

Wave after wave, dark with storm, crested with foam, surged towards the harbour in which we still sheltered. Should we drive out into the teeth of the gale, or should we bide contented where we were? Yet beyond the breakers was a great hope.

In two or three minutes Mr. Roosevelt came through. "Mr. President, what's this about Japan?" "It's quite true," he replied. "They have attacked us at Pearl Harbour. We are all in the same boat now.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong; and a boy deprived of a father's care often develops, if he escape the perils of youth, an independence and vigour of thought which may restore in after life the heavy loss of early days.

If you are walking through hell, keep walking!

En aquellos días duros, la derrota no era juzgada con indulgencia por los extenuados aliados y todos tuvimos que sobreponernos a ello, con cortesía que apenas velaba el menosprecio y con simpatía que apenas dominaba al resentimiento. Y he de rendir aquí un tributo a la dignidad y al valor tranquilo del ministro italiano y al respeto que supo inspirar a todos en aquellas tristes circunstancias.

You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck...One must never forget when misfortunes come that it is quite possible they are saving one from something much worse; or that when you make some great mistake, it may very easily serve you better than the best-advised decision.

Il ne faut jamais oublié quand un malheur vous frappe, qu'il peut très bien vous épargner un ennui pire encore; ou que, quand vous commettez une lourde erreur, cela peut très bien vous servir mieux que la décision la plus sage. La vie est un tout, la chance est un tout, et on ne peut séparer aucun élément du reste.

If the whole word, except the United States, sank under the ocean, that community could get its living. They carved it out of the prairie and the forest. They're going to have a strong national resurgence in the near future.

history is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind;

they meant to test the ground; and in so doing they were prepared to go to the very edge of the precipice. It is so easy to lose one's balance there: a touch, a gust of wind, a momentary dizziness, and all is precipitated into the abyss.

I resisted these movements whenever they came to my notice. In this I was supported by Marshal Stalin, who followed the Russian maxim, "You may always walk with the Devil till you get to the end of the bridge.

It is however easier to infuriate Americans than to cow them.

you never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

War is a hard school, but the British, once compelled to go there, are attentive pupils.

Nothing…is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

the threat of adversity is a necessary factor in stimulating self-reliance.