Quotes About Challenges

The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.

We have here other fish to fry.

Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones.

The poor schlemiel is a man who falls on his back and breaks his nose.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

You will never be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.

I have gout, asthma, and seven other maladies, but am otherwise very well.

My God, this is a hell of a job. I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends, my goddamn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries tliem.

Prosperity is not just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.

Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved.

Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen.

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way and they'll knock your socks off.

I am one of those people who just can't help getting a kick out of life - even when it's a kick in the teeth.

The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along.

The good Lord never gives you more than you can handle. Unless you die of something.

I never fight, except against difficulties.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

Trouble is 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.