Quotes About Adversity

I've taken such a giant step onto that slope that I've slid straight down to the cesspool at its bottom.

Patton said: Pressure makes diamonds.

Winston Churchill had once famously pointed out that nothing in life was as exhilarating as being shot at without result.

Great," I said, rolling my eyes. "We'll get the chance to know what it feels like to be an ear of corn as a thick cloud of locusts approach.

And there can be no triumph without the possibility of defeat.

Maybe it would be well understood in this far future time that resilience, determination, refusal to accept defeat, and ability to bounce back from tragedy were the hallmarks of the human condition.

We're our own worst enemy.

True courage is being scared out of your mind, having everything to lose, and acting anyway.

PART 8 "Battle not with monsters, Lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze into the abyss, The abyss gazes back into you." —Friedrich Nietzsche,

Churchill had said, "When you're going through hell, keep going,

How can a man die better, he recited to himself, than facing fearful odds. For the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his gods.

The great martial artist Bruce Lee had once commented, "If someone comes at you with a sword, run if you can. Kung Fu doesn't always work.

It has its ups and downs!

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half- way to meet it.

Douglas Johnson

We can never change the story that made us what we are. It's a story accumulated by the manifold complexities-its capacity for astonishment and horror, for sanguinity and hopelessness, for pellucid light and the most profound darkness. We are what happened to us. And we carry everywhere all that has shaped us-all that we lacked, all that we wanted but never got; all that we got but never wanted; all that was found and lost.

Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can't get away this time!

Last, but by no means least, courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle_ the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.

It is a tendency identified by the late Australian political philosopher Kenneth Minogue as 'St George in retirement' syndrome. After slaying the dragon the brave warrior finds himself stalking the land looking for still more glorious fights. He needs his dragons. Eventually, after tiring himself out

One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.