Quotes About Challenge

Difficulties, opposition, criticism - these things are meant to be overcome, and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life loses its charm and I begin to wonder what I should do about it.

The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crises, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helper.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.

Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purist ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.

The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

It is from the level of calamities ... that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

Adversity comes with instruction in its hand.

Those things that hurt, instruct.

Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Old birds are hard to pluck.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game ! and lost.

I was nervous and confident at the same time, nervous about going out there in front of all of those people, with so much at stake, and confident that I was going to go out there and win.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.