Courage in Adversity Quotes

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

Endure what is difficult to endure and to suffer what is difficult to suffer.

A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.

When the life of the nation was attempted, when the cause of liberty and human rights called for their aid, they rushed forth to rally under the banner they loved, with grand singleness of purpose and heroic devotion--leaving all behind them, to meet toil and danger, hunger, sickness, wounds, and death, for nothing but the sublime satisfaction of doing their duty to their country and to mankind.

If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to you. After being severely wounded two weeks before my nineteenth birthday I had a bad time until I figured out that nothing could happen to me that had not happened to all men before me. Whatever I had to do men had always done. If they had done it then I could do it too and the best thing was not to worry about it.

The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.

In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear.

Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

what matters most is how well you walk through the fire

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.

Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

If you want to know who we are, who America is, how we respond to evil-that's it: selflessly, compassionately, unafraid.

Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working.

Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.

It is hardship that makes clear who the "fighters" are.

We have had much to bear already. And still more will we have to bear. Let us thank God for being young.

Americans have always held firm, because we have always believed in certain truths. We know that if evil is not confronted, it gains in strength and audacity and returns to strike us again. We know that when the work is hard, the proper response is not retreat, it is courage. And we know that a great ideal of human freedom entrusted to us in a special way and that the ideal of liberty is worth defending.

The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.

There will be times when you will be frightened and discouraged. You may feel that you are defeated. The odds of obtaining victory may appear overwhelming. At times you may feel like David trying to fight Goliath. But remember-David did win!

There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.