Quotes About Challenges

It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather.

For when you are on the spot, disorders are detected in their beginnings and remedies can be readily applied; but when you are at a distance, they are not heard of until they have gathered strength and the case is past cure.

For Time, driving all things before it, may bring with it evil as well as good.

The armour of others is too wide, or too strait for us; it falls off us, or it weighs us down.

If they lacked the opportunity, the strength of their sprit would have been sapped; if they had lacked ability, the opportunity would have been wasted.

The innovator makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would prosper under the new.

It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.

But when states are acquired in a country differing in language, customs, or laws, there are difficulties, and good fortune and great energy are needed to hold them, and one of the greatest and most real helps would be that he who has acquired them should go and reside there.

Dove c'è una grande volontà non possono esserci grandi difficoltà.

Ma, quando si acquista stati in una provincia disforme di lingua, di costumi e di ordini, qui sono le difficultà; e qui bisogna avere gran fortuna e grande industria a tenerli; et uno de' maggiori remedii e più vivi sarebbe che la persona di chi acquista vi andassi ad abitare.

es defecto común de los hombres no preocuparse por la tempestad durante la bonanza)

CzÅ'owiek, który pragnie zawsze i wszÄ™dzie wytrwa? w dobrem, pa?? koniecznie musi miÄ™dzy tymi lud?mi, którzy nie sÄ… dobrymi

Ksi???ta, którzy stracili wÅ'adzÄ™ ksi???cÄ… piastowanÄ… przez nich od wielu lat, niech o to losu nie obwiniajÄ…, lecz wÅ'asnÄ… niezdarno??, albowiem nie pomyÅ›leli w czasach spokojnych, ?e mogÄ… one zmieni? siÄ™ (powszechna to wada ludzi nie pamiÄ™ta? o burzy, gdy morze spokojne)

Everyone is always going through tough things, the irony in it is that everyone thinks what they're going through is just as hard as what you are. Life isn't about surviving this, it's about understanding this.

Life, I've learned, is never fair. If they teach anything in schools, that should be it.

What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.

But because they didn't see each other very often, their relationship had more ups and downs than either of them had experienced before. Since everything felt right when they were together, everything felt wrong when they weren't.

I lost you once, I think I can do it again.

It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.

Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.

My dad always said that when you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just hard as what you're going through

If relationships were hard, mariage was even harder... it seemed like most couples struggled. It went with the territory. What did Nana always say? Stick two different people with two different sets of expectations under one roof and it ain't always going to be shrimp and grits on Easter.