Quotes About Adversity

Like any decent reconaissance agent, he had fought his way into trouble in order to fight his way out

I don't know. On my last junket I was caught in the middle of a massacre. The one before that I was tortured and left for dead. Joy and recreation seem to have escaped me somehow.

Wives invariably flourish when deserted; it is the deserting male who often ends in disaster. (William McFee)

Jam nie z soli wyrósÅ' ani z roli, jeno z tego, co mnie boli

I have noticed that the stoutest pessimists, when fate or men try to take something out of their lives, fight tooth and nail, and cry out as loud as the greatest optimists.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good.

To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting

Always having what we want may not be the best good fortune Health seems sweetest after sickness, food in hunger, goodness in the wake of evil, and at the end of daylong labor sleep.

Who will hide from the fire that does not set?

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Quando si perdono il senso dell'umorismo e il coraggio nello stesso momento, è segno che anche la partita è persa.

My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations.

Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale! Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appall!

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

to believe we are the active subjects of our victories but only the passive objects of our defeats. We triumph, but it is not really we who fail—we are ruined by forces beyond our control.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

Envy is born in a man from the start.

In soft regions are born soft men.