Quotes About Challenges

The truth is, after Boys Don't Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. by Saint Philo of Alexandria

Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth.

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

Failure is a fuel for excuses.

You cannot keep bumping your head against reality and saying it is not there.

The truth is that this culture of political correctness has tied the hands of law enforcement around the USA.

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.

I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.

The future will be green, or not at all. This truth lies at the heart of humankind's most pressing challenge: to learn to live in harmony with the Earth on a genuinely sustainable basis.

I can't see straight. But that's okay.

Good Lord! Get off the cross, we need the wood.

Sometimes something comes along and tears your roots right out the ground, and that's when you know you been planted too long.

it's been amazing- not perfect, but amazing. I'm actually glad of the nonperfection because that has made our relationship feel more grounded, solid, and real than what I had (...), which just cruised blithely along, deceptively perfect, until it crashed and burned in a fiery wreck.

I'd love to have First Lady Michelle Obama over and ask, 'How do you make your marriage work?' I think the president is sexy as all get-out, but he has got to get on her nerves some kind of way. He's this wonderful, powerful man, but she sees him leaving his socks on the floor.

Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.

Black saw the connection between crime and poverty.

Friendship is untenable for people in our position.

Life had its way of beating humbleness into a man.

Some hopes were weeds, easy to eradicate with a yank and a pull. Some, however, were vines, fast growing, tenacious, and impossible to clear. As she played the music box again, alone in the drawing room, she began to realize that hers were of the latter kind. She would never stop hoping.

It really is too bad that sometimes inconvenient facts surface to thumb their noses at remarkably elegant hypotheses.

Real people, with their unpredictable ways, can seem difficult to contend with after one has spent a stretch in simulation.