Quotes About Adversity

De Gaulle reluctantly reboarded La Combattante, convinced that "France would live, for she was equal to her suffering," while privately wondering, "How can one be expected to govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

There was nothing for it but obduracy, to soldier on even for those who were not soldiers. "How hard I have become," an American Red Cross volunteer told her diary in February. "Emotions which formerly would have wracked my soul leave me almost untouched. It's a hardness of survival.

Lincoln had inelegantly called "the tired spot that can't be got at.

Of 10,492 V-1s ultimately fired at Britain, about 4,000 were destroyed by fighters, balloons, and antiaircraft guns, while others veered off course or crashed prematurely. But about 2,400 hit greater London, killing 6,000 and badly injuring 18,000. (Not one struck Tower Bridge.) It was, an official British history concluded, "an ordeal perhaps as trying to Londoners as any they had endured throughout the war.

The tasks were too many, the seas too vast, the sails too few.

A soldier would snake his way painfully through rocks and rubble to set up a light machine gun, raise his head cautiously to aim, and find a dozen natives clustered solemnly around him. Street

The features of character are carved out of adversity.

Dodging potholes so old and deep that the devil must use them as a shortcut home...

He spent two decades wandering the wilderness, overmedicated, set upon by the tax man, divorce lawyers, everything but a rain of toads. There were more fights and pills and liquor and car crashes and women and discharge of firearms—accidental and on purpose—than a mortal man could be expected to survive, but he played.

But I don't think any dog knows home better than one thrown anway once already.

Does he bite?" the driver asked. "He even bites me," I said. He picked a fight with whatever the world brought him, and that day it happened to be a Lincoln. I don't think he would have hurt the driver, but he sure would have messed up a nice suit. The next week he did it again, and the next.

It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to be beloved, a man needs a dragon.

When one door closes another opens but all too often there is a long hallway in between.

The Rise of Black Wolf

He seemed as though he were habitually preparing himself for something awful, and this was justified because many awful things had happened to him.

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

When the stakes are the biggest is when the challenges to focus can be the most difficult and the most costly.

On what will you be judged, the current difficulty, or the final result?

Muhammad Ali said, "Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.

performance is your greatest ally in dealing with adversity, and focus is your greatest weapon in achieving that performance.

Succeeding in difficult times means perseverance, and that trait is not prevalent in these times. We are the now generation.

Whether we bring them on ourselves or they are forced upon us, difficult times come, and it is what we do once they have arrived that is important.

You cannot become distracted by success, and losing focus happens just as much through prosperity as it does adversity.