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Quotes About Challenge

Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.
~ Michael Joseph Oakeshott
The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.
~ Marianne Williamson
Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.
~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb.
~ Confucius
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
~ Emily Dickinson
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
~ Henrik Ibsen
No man can smile in the face of adversity and mean it.
~ E. W. Howe
Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.
~ Saul Bellow
How can you be happy in a world like this? You have got to be crazy to even attempt something like that.
~ Frederick Lenz
Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot run away from a weakness. You must sometimes fight it out or perish and if that be so why not now and where you stand?
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Taking a risk to survive isn't that impressive. Taking a risk to be happy, that takes guts.
~ Sarah Noffke, Revived
You're going to act like a happy man. I know, I know. It's the hardest role in the world.
~ Pat Conroy, South of Broad
No doubt, the biggest challenge before you is to protect yourself from sadness, because happiness belongs to the theory of uncertainty.
~ Dipin Damodharan
A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.
~ Voltaire
Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.
~ Norman Mailer
All this health and safety talk is just killing me.
~ Jeremy Clarkson
We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture.
~ Wayne Pacelle
Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons.
~ Sugar Ray Leonard
I just want them to keep bringing guys on and I'am going to strip them of their health. I bring pain a lot of pain.
~ Mike Tyson
It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise.
~ Brady Anderson
Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The present system is unsustainable. The only question is whether we will master the change or it will master us.
~ Hillary Clinton
Million bucks won't see you through a major health crisis.
~ Jack Nicholson