Quotes About Adversity

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry on as if nothing had happened.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

We will have no truce or parley with you [Hitler], or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst—and we will do our best.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

When I warned [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their prime minister and his divided cabinet, "In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken." Some chicken; some neck.

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which leads to a dark gulf.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

We will have no truce or parlay with you Hitler, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst -- and we will do our best.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

His was not an easy face to read, and no one could have told that in the past half hour he had suffered the worst knock of his life. Except that he no longer whistled into the wind or talked to his irritable mare, there was nothing to show.

When you feel there is an unfair burden on your shoulders, that's just the way it is sometimes.

Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates. People laugh, lose patience, treat you shabby.

The fact that I were too dumb to play college football did not seem to impress the United States Army none.

Well, maybe it works for you, Forrest. I thought it was working for me too - but look at me. Just look at me," he say. "What good am I? I'm a goddamn legless freak. A bum. A drunkard. A thirty-five-year-old vagrant." "It could be worse," I says.

In life's steeplechases, one must always jump the fences when they come.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

Along with the friction, there must also be growth. This growth will nullify the effect of the friction.