Quotes About Adversity

The two surgeons, of course, were permitted a small amount of medical supplies and instruments.

Mrs. Chippy some distance from camp and shot them without a qualm

They had had no sleep for almost eighty hours, and their bodies had been drained by exposure

Another night, this time without a drop of water, and possibly another gale—they simply did not have it in them.

Wild, with six men, was sent back to the ship to salvage anything of value.

Of all their enemies -- the cold, the ice, the sea -- he feared none more than demoralization.

For scientific leadership give me Scott; for swift and efficient travel, Amundsen; but when you are in a hopeless situation, when there seems no way out, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton.

And in the space of a few short hours, life had been reduced from a highly complex existence, with a thousand petty problems, to one of the barest simplicity in which only one real task remained—the achievement of the goal.

This, then, was the Drake Passage, the most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe—and rightly so. Here nature has been given a proving ground on which to demonstrate what she can do if left alone. The

And all the defenses they had so carefully constructed to prevent hope from entering their minds collapsed.

He makes no friend who never made a foe.

O iron nerve to true occasion true,O fall'n at length, that tower of strengthWhich stood four-square to all the winds that blew.

The worst is yet to come.

Cannon to right of them,Cannon to left of them,Cannon in front of themVolley'd and thunder'd.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

It's the willows themselves humming, because here the willows have been made symbols of the forces that are against us.

Poor splendid wings so frayed and soiled and torn!

The torturing and testing of parents, is followed by shortage (of sustenance), and being driven towards belittlement and humiliation.

Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

When this world favors somebody, it lends him the attributes, and surpassing merits of others and when it turns its face away from him it snatches away even his own excellences and fame.

If poverty was a man, I would have slain him.

Walk with your sickness,it wont walk you.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.