Courage in the Face of Adversity Quotes

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure

Our choice is whether to put our country on a platter to hand over to the invaders, or to fight to the end. I cannot face our ancestors if we do not put up a fight. I would rather fight to the end… If the end comes, you gentlemen here are my witness and can testify that I have done my best.

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

Adversity creates heroes.

In the basement of 33 Himmel Street, Max Vandenburg could feel the fists of an entire nation. One by one they climbed into the ring to beat him down. They made him bleed. They let him suffer. Millions of them - until one last time, when he gathered himself to his feet.

The winds of tribulation, which blow out some men's candles of commitment, only fan the fires of faith of others.

Who speaks of conquering? To endure is everything.

The story [in 12 Years a Slave] serves as a metaphor for the fear of having your family taken away, and for being abused in such a horrific way. I lost it a lot of times watching that film, particularly when seeing the grace of the man when he finally makes it back home aged, changed, forever brutalized, and yet he apologizes to his family for his long absence. That was such a profoundly moving moment capturing the triumph of dignity over the disgraceful behavior of those involved in the slave trade.

The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.

...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil.

Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.

People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.

I have lived a life full of love and pain, of Joy and Sorrow, and I live on still. i have many, many years ahead of me, each day with the potential to be filled to the brim with trials to face and challenges to overcome.

Our enemies believed America was weak and materialistic, that we would splinter in fear and selfishness. They were as wrong as they are evil.

They told me I'd never probably see the front-line area.

Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.

We live in the shadow of crime with the unspoken understanding that we are victims.. of fear, of violence, of social impotence. A man has risen to show us that the power is, ans always has been, in our hands. We are under siege. He's showing us that we can resist.

The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me. It's fascinating because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be here today. I don't think we give ourselves enough credit for the overcoming.

To the patriots I say this: Take that long eternal look. Stand up for freedom, no matter what the cost. Stand up and be counted. It can help to save your soul-and maybe your country.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Nothing is so rash as fear; and the counsels of pusillanimity very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate, the evils from which they would fly.