Quotes About Adversity

Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it.

There are no great men, just great circumstances, and how they handle those circumstances will determine the outcome of history.

You must train harder than the enemy who is trying to kill you. You will get all the rest you need in the grave.

How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.

If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.

As we struggle to overcome our troubles, we are making history and fulling our destiny. Keep pressing!

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.

History is an alternating series of frying pans and fires.

History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.

When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there and invent something.

I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.

I think Russia has already turned the toughest pages in its history. We're only moving forward now, only get stronger.

If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.

History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.

If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back.

There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history is, trauma is trauma, there's always this freeing of the spirit.