Quotes About Challenges

Misfortune comes to all men.

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed.

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

If you have arthritis, calmly say, I was always complaining about the ruts in the road until I realized that the ruts are the road.

Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.

No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.

Acceptance and Work If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.

If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier.

No rose without a thorn.

I have learned to live with it all... whatever happens ... all of it.

Boys, this is only a game. But it's like life in that you will be dealt some bad hands. Take each hand, good or bad, and don't whine and complain, but play it out. If you're men enough to do that, God will help and you will come out well.

There are some great roles - mostly in Shakespeare's tragedies which no one can play at full strength from beginning to end. One simply hopes that one can hit the peaks as often as one has the strength.

Film-making has become a kind of hysterical pregnancy.

Show business is like sex. When it's wonderful, it's wonderful. But when it isn't very good, it's still all right.

God tests His real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free from admirers then.

Thou hast shown thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.

Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

Suffering has always been with us, does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.