Quotes About Adversity

If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.

did not overlook the broad principle that in war as in life everything is relative.

Hard as are the tests of battle, the armies of all nations have withstood them. But here was the long gnawing strain of suffering much and talking more, of having little and doing nothing.

Weakness is not treason, though it may be equally disastrous.

Success is Ability to go from One Failure to Another. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

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. It

We must be ready... to take the rough with the smooth. We must have spirits so constant that we can derive from misfortune added strength, and if we are cheered by victory, we are also inspired to greater efforts by rebuffs. We cannot tell how long the road will be. We only know that it will be stony, painful, and uphill, and that we shall march along it to the end.

One begins to see, for instance, that painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight a battle. It is, if anything, more exciting than fighting it successfully. But the principle is the same.

This truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of pick themselves up and hurt off as if nothing had happened

Solo el sombrío crepúsculo de la lucha adversa trae la hora de las soluciones desesperadas. Lo positivo posible se rechaza cuando todo podía ganarse, mientras lo negativo peligroso se adopta cuando no queda otra posibilidad que la huida, y la energía y resolución que podían haber asegurado la victoria se malgastan en meros procesos de fuga.

The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet.

He is no better than an epileptic corpse.

Siempre se dice que no hay que tratar de hacer más de lo que uno puede y que hay que estar seguros de lo que uno trata de conseguir, pero este principio, como tantos otros en la vida y en la guerra, tiene excepciones. Hay

You may always walk with the Devil till you get to the end of the bridge.

Winston S. Churchill

People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and to defy clamour are not fit to be Ministers in times of stress.

meet with Triumph and Disaster, And treat those two impostors just the same.

War is a business of terrible pressures, and persons who take part in it must fail if they are not strong enough to withstand them.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty

History didn't greet us with triumphal fanfares: —it flung dirty sand into our eyes. Ahead of us lay long roads leading nowhere, poisoned wells and bitter bread.

Funny little thing. How could she know that even despair can work for you if you're lucky enough to outlive it.   I'd

You're still a young man/woman. It's not too late to learn hw to unwind. Who said you have to take it on the chin?

When everybody else is bending with the wind, very few people will lean against it.