Quotes About Challenges

An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

Misfortunes come to all men.

You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are.

The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure.

None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

I can count the number of dates I've had on one hand. I wish that guys would approach me, but they don't.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

To become a father is not hard, to be a father is, however.

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

The thing about having a baby is that thereafter you have it.

When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.

When it goes wrong, you feel like cutting your throat, but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.

I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world. I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence. I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts.

Here is where some entrepreneurs fail. They are filled with creative juices and total commitment to their business, but too often they don't understand that they must also be managers, administrators, even gofers-at least for a while.

Nobody roots for Goliath.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.

Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.

Difficulties exist to be surmounted.