Distinction Quote by Ambrose Bierce

A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet.

— Ezra Taft Benson

A man wants to walk across the land, but the earth is covered with thorns. He has two options - one is to pave…

— Joshua Waitzkin

A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.

— Brandon Sanderson

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

— Francis Picabia

“For men to plunge headlong into an undertaking of vast change, they must be intensely discontented yet not destitute, and they must have the…

— Eric Hoffer

That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Self-awareness of one’s faults, far from being the first step to growth, is very often the second foot in the mud.”

— Bauvard

“When man finds in himself a certain defect, of which he can by no means rid himself, there remains but to accept the so-called…

— Lev Shestov

“Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself. No such conditions can exist as descending into vice and its attendant sufferings…

— James Allen

To higher or lower ends, they [the majority of mankind] move too often with something of a sad countenance, with hurried and ignoble gait,…

— Walter Pater

It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs.

— P.D. Ouspensky

The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns…

— George Eliot