Quotes About Challenges

New roads; new ruts.

It requires a strong constitution to withstand repeated attacks of prosperity.

Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

Every path has its puddle.

It never rains but it pours.

No one is happy all his life long.

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

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

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 as appropriate for your special endowments.

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

We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

I try to learn one new thing a week to balance the one thing I forget a week, but lately I forget three things a week.

The way of transgressors is hard.

As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance ... but no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still-and persevere.

Any life truly lived is a risky business, and if one puts up too many fences against the risks one ends by shutting out life itself.

It is only by risking ... that we live at all.

It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risks.

There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.

I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I gained one.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

It is not easy to be a pioneer-but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.