Quotes About Challenges

There is one thing sure about life: Life will push us hardly many times! When you are pushed, don't be surprised; stay firm like a plane tree or be elastic like a bamboo!

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

I said to them last week that I'd like them to win ugly and they certainly won ugly today. That was the ugliest thing I've seen since the ugly sisters fell out of the ugly tree.

My family tree consists of drug dealers, thugs, and killers.

It's tricky. I've never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I've never really had a profile. So in a way I have this 'nothing to lose' attitude.

You know what they say, the high trees get the wind.

The rigid tree will be felled.

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.

Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.

If you learn to trust God when the sun is shining, it is easier to trust Him on the day when there are dark and lowering clouds in the sky and you are in one of life's storms.

Never let an impossible situation intimidate you. Let it motivate you - to pray more, trust more, expect more.

I do not trust doctors. They are like golfers. Every one has a different answer to your problems.

Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.

My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it.

How can love survive in such a graceless age? The trust and self assurance that lead to happiness, they're the very things we kill.

Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

I think our insecurities are our biggest challenges, and we all have them. Trust me, I've got plenty of my own.

I've had so much happen, it's hard to trust people.

Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies

As life goes on I'm learning to trust myself more, so I am more comfortable - you have to be, doing things in front of people, especially when there's lots of pressure. I have to make decisions.

God always has a reason for what you are asked to endure.

And when I retired, trust me, not only did Nolan Ryan, but the entire Ryan family had withdrawals from baseball. And it was tough.

We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness.