Adversity Quotes

Fix your course on a star and you'll navigate any storm.

True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune.

How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.

Adversity is the midwife of genius.

There shall be no Alps.

A general of ordinary talent, occupying a bad position and surprised by a superior force, seeks his safety in retreat; but a great captain supplies all deficiencies by his courage, and marches boldly to meet the attack. By this means he disconcerts his adversary, and if this last shows any irresolution in his movements, a skilful leader, profiting by his indecision, may even hope for victory.

There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal triumph if you have the iron will and the necessary skill.

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

He makes the basic point that it is not so much the disability one suffers from that matters but one's attitude to it. The man who says: I will conquer this illness & live a happy life, is already halfway through to victory.

Adversity cleanses the lethargies of man.

Difficulties break some men but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying, one armed with the hope that he will rise even in the end.

Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

Danger: if you meet it promptly and without flinching you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

When you feel you cannot continue in your position for another minute, and all that is in human power has been done, that is the moment when the enemy is most exhausted, and when one step forward will give you the fruits of the struggle you have borne.

We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.

Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.

Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard.

Danger, if met head on, can be nearly halved.