Quotes About Challenges

Finn regarded pesky little things like wedding bands, engagement rings, and jealous, hulking menfolk more as amusing challenges than immovable obstacles that could be hazardous to his health.

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom.

Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.

All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.

I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

You don't get character because you're successful; you build character because of the hardships you face.

And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.

Welcome the challenges. Look for the opportunities in every situation to learn and grow in wisdom.

Life is not about negative circumstances that happen to you, it's about what you do with the golden opportunities hidden within!

The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.

Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.

In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.

men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success

Life is 10 per cent what happens and 90 per cent how you deal with it.

If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.

Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.

Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way is part of the way.