Quotes About Challenges

What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing other patients.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can-and surely will at times-fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!

It is the little things that fret and worry us; you can dodge an elephant, but not a fly.

Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.

He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth the publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to get sensible men to read it.

I believe it would do us good to rise above the little things, the disappointing things, the difficult things, and to see the larger things that are now facing us and to ask ourselves how we are to meet them.

Ages 50+. — The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.

You can shake your head but don't break your neck.

The year 2020 has been the 1918 Spanish Flu, the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s all rolled into one.

Kids in the future will have to endure an entire school year of History class devoted just to the year 2020.

It's usually very gradual... It's latent. It waits. It lays in wait for the time when you think, "It's fine now, I'm okay." And then... then the next thing you know, it's not okay. Things are not going so well.

Bad is never good until worse happens.

At times, challenges hit with the force of a roaring, rushing waterfall. The true test, however, is whether you can put your arms up and enjoy the feel of the water.

Sometimes when Fortune scowls most spitefully, she is preparing her most dazzling gifts.

...and we take everything heartily and naturally in the right way, — for even mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.