Quotes About Challenges

Part of being awake is being willing to be crucified. If we think that to be awake means the whole world will agree with us, then we are in a total delusion.

Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.

Do not kick against the pricks.

The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends

Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors

The best way to eat the elephant standing in your path is to cut it up into little pieces.

He who is unable to dance says that the yard is stony

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

How absurd to call youth the time of happiness - youth, the time of greatest vulnerability! - Hercule Poirot in Death on the Nile

Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express

There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them. It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way --- whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of.

These blondes, sir, they're responsible for a lot of trouble.

Everything is possible, isn't it? The world soon teaches one that!

I suppose, like most young people nowadays, boredom is what you dread most in the world, and yet, I can assure you, there are worse things.

How absurd to call youth the time of happiness—youth, the time of greatest vulnerability!

I pass over the spectacle of Poirot on a camel. He started by groans and lamentations and ended by shrieks, gesticulations and invocations to the Virgin Mary and every Saint in the calendar. In the end, he descended ignominiously and finished the journey on a diminutive donkey.

He takes everything seriously. That is what makes him so difficult to live with.

It is really a very hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

Getting soft—that's the curse of the present day.

Life is very trying.

He's got a wife," I said. "Quite a nice wife, and two obstreperous children—boys.

Married a man who wasn't much good. I'd say she never had much judgment when it came to men. Some women haven't. They fall for anyone who tells them a hard-luck story. Always convinced that all the man needs is proper female understanding. That, once married to her, he'll pull up his socks and make a go of life! But of course that type of man never does.