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Quotes About Challenges

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble.
~ Charles F. Kettering
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
~ Confucius
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the next one.
~ Ruth Gordon
The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
~ Gail Sheehy
It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.
~ Kossuth
If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.
~ Tatyana Tolstaya
Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
~ Lou Holtz
It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. ... Great necessities call out great virtues.
~ Abigail Adams
Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being free from flatterers.
~ Samuel Johnson
Difficulties are things that show what men are.
~ Epictetus
Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.
~ Anonymous
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
~ English proverb
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
~ Francis Bacon
The good things that belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.
~ Queen Elizabeth I
The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
~ Francis Bacon
As for what you're calling hard luck - well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish.
~ Stephen Vincent Benet
America - the best poor man's country in the world.
~ William Allen
Most of the fear that spoils our life comes from attacking difficulties before we get to them.
~ Dr. Frank Crane
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
~ Dinah Shore
One boy is more trouble than a dozen girls.
~ English proverb
A boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.
~ Plato
Much will have to change in Canada if the country is to stay the same.
~ Abraham Rotstein