Adversity Quote by Carey Wallace Download Open image ““Great obstacles were the tutors of great men.”” — Carey Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adversity Great men Teachers
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“But the better the training, the greater and more detailed the preparation, the more men are at the mercy of the impossible.” — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“The difficulty is not in finding men to advance but men willing to be advanced.” — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
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“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are no great men, there are only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All great men had to endure hard times and overcome challenging circumstances.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“There were obstacles that were beyond your control. sometimes you had to know when to walk away” — J.S. Cooper Copy Share Image
“What was it about scholarship and learning, he wondered, that seemed to wither the hearts of University men, leaving them incapable of loving anything… — Ellen Kushner Copy Share Image
“Claire had the same sensation she got when she heard people rattle off travelers' rumors about a place she had actually been: the realization… — Carey Wallace Copy Share Image
“His small compliments and offhand remarks formed a new scripture, and in breathless conversations and lonely, dream-drunk nights they built whole theologies from them.” — Carey Wallace Copy Share Image
“On the day Contessa Carolina Fantoni was married, only one other living person knew that she was going blind, and he was not her groom. This was not because she had failed to warn them. “I am going blind,” she had blurted to her mother, in the welcome dimness of the family coach, her eyes still bright with tears from… — Carey Wallace Copy Share
“Her mind raced through the dark, throwing open doors, knocking over cabinets, searching for anything it ever remembered seeing. Then the lightning flashed again. Carolina captured it before it even struck land, a jagged scar of silver light suspended over the black chimneys of a sleeping city. She narrowed her eyes at the incomplete bolt until it shimmered and broke.… — Carey Wallace Copy Share
“Her mother could sail impervious through reversals and snubs that would have sunk another woman. But she was defenseless against her own thoughts” — Carey Wallace Copy Share Image
“Serving as the only audience for a man raised by crowds of admirers exhausted her. [...] The buried thought that he might have found… — Carey Wallace Copy Share Image
We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East. — Steve Nash Copy Share Image
“The threats that resurfaced in the past 10 years were not an aberration. Al Qaeda and terrorism or one such threat, but it was actually not the most serious threat that the United States faced. The president can and should speak of foreseeing an era in which these threats don't exist, but you must not believe his own rhetoric. To… — George Friedman Copy Share
He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Friction is necessary. Ease of life leads to complacency and the atrophy of the human will and spirit. Within our struggles lives our strength, within our trials lives our triumphs. Friction creates a platform for change, generates heat and or fervor and creates a motivational charge that gives us an opportunity to be better. A gem cannot be polished without… — Jason Versey Copy Share
“Every adversity is just another opportunity to excel a little more.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“Just because she doesn't talk about it, doesn't mean she isn't feeling it. She hurts, but she won't wear it on her sleeve. She will never let an illness, a diagnosis, or a prediction, define her. She doesn't want sympathy, because that type of attention is not her goal. She'd rather you see the woman who smiles in the face… — Alfa H Copy Share
Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. — James Buckham Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Struggles are not associated to a particular people or creed, everyone struggles, not for the same reasons, but each has a personal struggle at… — Wayne Chirisa Copy Share Image
God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image