Quotes About Adversity

Sometimes you must go through the ugly to get to the pretty

There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.

I think when you're young you should be a lot with yourself and your sufferings. Then one day you get out where the sun shines and the rain rains and the snow snows, and it all comes together.

I hope your bacon burns.

Can you believe it? They made me an ensign." "I didn't realize that things were going so bad." "Scary, isn't it?

Facing her fear turned out to be the only hard part.

barely test in the normal range, but that woman could run this farm. She graduated from the colored high school in Ridley, which is no small feat given the environment she grew up in.

I guess when the world's crumbling around you the only way to survive is to comfort yourself," he said.

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.

If the world is ever in the throes of Armageddon, it's the women who'll be left standing.

Sometimes you have to fight fire with a blowtorch

For had it been an adversary who taunted me, then I could have borne it; or had it been an enemy who vaunted himself against me, then I could have hidden from him. But it was you, a man after my own heart, my companion, my own familiar friend.

down hard on the soft part of your hand, but not so

far buon viso a cattiva sorte (to smile in the face of adversity). I

What doesn't kill you will come back to finish the job.

I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit.

Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me personally a particularly easy time, but that was OK, that was normal. Most people, it seemed to me, took their turn to be football. Most survived. Some didn't.

Life is like the weather,despite a sunny forecast you can get wet.

Deal me in. If they want to play checkers, we'll play chess. Fuck them.

War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home-court advantage.

Don't think you are a great person just because you are a star in a given sport and win all the time because the next time, you may lose—and the time after that.

Lastly, ''Hang tough!'' Never, ever give up regardless of the adversity. If you are a leader, a fellow who other fellows look to, you have to keep going.

Only later did we discover that our planned drop zone had been strongly covered by the enemy with rifle pits and automatic weapons all around its perimeter. Had the drop taken place as planned, it was quite possible "that the greater breadth of the target would have given the waiting Germans a greatly enhanced opportunity for killing." Planned or not, Easy Company was scattered across a wide dispersal area several miles west of our objective. How the remainder of the

si on se laisse aller au désespoir, on finit mangé par les rêves qu'on a vécus de travers. J'ai