Quotes About Challenges

Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves ... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.

Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand, but you play it.

Boys, this is only 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.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determination; the way you play it is free will.

Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you do hold well.

Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.

Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.

A sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the unbearable.

Everyday ... life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust our old programs accordingly.

There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before, and will be again. Heartbroke? That's serious. Lose a few bucks? That's not.

Flops are a part of life's menu, and Eve never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

We must somehow get comfortable with the reality of periodic failure. ... Like a trip to the dentist, the thought of occasional reverses may not make us tingle with joyful anticipation, but then again, it's not the end of the world.

A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do ... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.

Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.

Failure is that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.

Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.

Failure is not sweet, but it need not be bitter.