Quotes About Adversity

We give to necessity the praise of virtue.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

I will never quit. I persevere and thrive on adversity. My Nation expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than my enemies. If knocked down, I will get back up, every time. I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength to protect my teammates and to accomplish our mission. I am never out of the fight.

In times of uncertainty there is a special breed of warrior ready to answer our Nation's call; a common man with uncommon desire to succeed. Forged by adversity, he stands alongside America's finest special operations forces to serve his country and the American people, and to protect their way of life. I am that man.

I will never quit. I persevere and thrive on adversity. My Nation expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than my enemies. If knocked down, I will get back up, every time. I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength to protect my teammates and to accomplish our mission. I am never out of the fight." As I mentioned, my name is Marcus.

This thing is not going to last forever, and the flaming ferris wheel will continue to spin without you.

One day I'm not gonna be here. Then it's gonna be you two, by yourselves, and I want you to understand how rough and unfair this world is. I want you both prepared for whatever the hell might come your way.

The worse things get, the more you know you can count on men like that to always have your back. If you really want to know if someone is a true friend, get yourself into a tight spot with him or her, everyone has plenty of friends when things are good, but friendship is forged in moments of chaos.

It's easy after a disaster to dwell on the experience, to spend too much time with your mind stuck on it, and to let it defeat you.

You have to use your fear to keep from that deadly state of being afraid.

It's unbelievable what you can do when the threat to your own life is that bad.

No matter how many we ran to ground, there were always more.

years in a U.S. civilian jail

Marcus, the body can take damn near anything. It's the mind that needs training. The question that guy was being asked involved mental strength. Can you handle such injustice? Can you cope with that kind of unfairness, that much of a setback? And still come back with your jaw set, still determined, swearing to God you will never quit? That's what we're looking for.

No matter how much it hurts, how dark it gets or how hard you fall, you are NEVER out of the fight.

The only way out of hell is to walk right through it. When you do, it always helps to have your brothers by your side.

And difference, as he learned that day, inspired a particular kind of savagery.

The rats that had once fouled their food became their food. But soon the rats were gone.

Turning the other cheek was a lovely sentiment, but in the real world, it mostly resulted in matching bruises.

You can't stop the future. All you can do is pick a side.

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Turning the other cheek was a lovely sentiment, but in the real world, it mostly resulted in matching bruises. Better

you are going to find that the heights you've attained make for a long fall if you don't understand the mountain.

He was feeling something we all feel once in a while: why me?