Quotes About Adversity

I learned early on that extraordinary challenges lead to extraordinary victories.

I think it's imperative of me to advance that theory that you can win your small victories against the dark.

Some of my biggest victories have come directly after some of my biggest failures.

It's what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force-but, you know, there they still are. There their culture is, there their history is, they're not going anywhere.

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

I think this could be our best victory over Germany since the war.

The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory.

Comrade Kim Jong Il, who was faithful to Comrade Kim Il Sung's ideas and cause, led our revolution along the glorious road of victory, braving the severe trials and adversities of history by dint of his unique leadership of the Songun revolution.

I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat. We don't want defeat in sport. We don't want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What's going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?

I dealt with legal questions in the interest of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP and its members during the difficult years of struggle for the victory of the Movement.

As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack.

I like a character that goes on a journey. A character that has had it all, lost it all, and is trying to get back to just being OK. I love the agony of defeat just as much as I love the thrill of victory.

I think people relate to the person who gets knocked down or maybe has to come from behind and get that victory.

We all are faced by problems of 'How am I going to get the rent?' or 'Am I going to have this job six months from now?' It's very difficult to define in your life a victory.

Hamas's strategy is resistance and survival. As long as they survive, this is a victory.

Any time the other side - Karl Rove or folks on the far right - are going after my father for smiling too much, you know that's a victory.

As a kid, growing up, as far as I was concerned, I was Luke Skywalker. Any sort of small victory or any adversity I would come up against at school, I was like, 'How would Luke Skywalker deal with this?' Everybody was the Empire; anybody who bullied me at school was the Empire.

Defeating a terrorist organization is like fighting a forest fire; there's never a clear moment of victory, and even after you've won, you have to watch carefully.

Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.

I'm an only child and grew up in a bad neighborhood. My parents weren't well-off, but they would save up to get me video games. Games were something I did because I couldn't really go outside where bad things were going on.

I did five videos and we had to cover three black eyes. It seemed like the day before a video, I would get a black eye and we had to cover it.