Adversity Quote by Will Durant Download Open image ““but trial by combat was unknown.”” — Will Durant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adversity War
“A trial was a stupid word, considering that an attempt was never good enough: you were supposed to toe the line, period.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“This was a day of extraordinary trial. My ever-watchful foe seemed to have found out new premises to work upon” — Phoebe Palmer Copy Share Image
“the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the War, but that they started it.” — Ann Tusa Copy Share Image
“To many battles are the fictional skirmishes of an unoccupied mind.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“He who does not engage in battle is likely to defeat the enemy.” — Joshua Cooper Ramo Copy Share Image
“But words in a book were one thing. The true test came in battle.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“We fought.' 'A duel?' 'Nothing that formal. A simultaneous decision to murder one another is more like it.” — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“is a pretty well established fact that many a brutal officer fell in battle, from being shot other than by the enemy. Shortly” — Matilda Pierce Alleman Copy Share Image
I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“This is the tragedy of almost every civilization—that its soul is in its faith, and seldom survives philosophy.” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Hence the uselessness of logic: no one ever convinced anybody by logic; and even logicians use logic only as a source of income. To… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Intellectualism—the conception of man as above all a thinking animal, consciously adapting means to rationally chosen ends—fell sick with Rousseau, took to its bed… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“All those fascinating varieties of terrain—mountains and valleys, fiords and straits, gulfs and streams—that make Europe a panorama of diverse delight, have broken the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“To be great is not to be placed above humanity, ruling others; but to stand above the partialities and futilities of uninformed desire, and… — Will Durant 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… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
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,… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
“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… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
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
