Quotes About Challenges

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

There ain't nothing from the outside can lick any of us.

They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters.

The way of transgressors is hard.s

When sorrows come, they come not as single spies, But in battalions!

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

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

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks.

Most ball games are lost, not won.

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop.

Television has a real problem. They have no page two.

Let's face it, some days you're the pigeon and some days you're the statue.

There is hope for all of us. Well, anyway, if you don't die you live through it, day in, day out.

Oh, what times! Oh, what standards!

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

I'm not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It's just that in this age of almost instantaneous communication, we bear the weight of problems our forefathers only read about after they were solved.

We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.

Trying to make the presidency work these days is like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie.

I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing, I'd rather walk.'

Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Though life is made up of mere bubbles, 'Tis better than many aver, For while we've a whole lot of troubles, The most of them never occur.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.