Quotes About Challenges

Bessie cried. "I ain't movin' to Arizona! Damnit, there is nothin' there but gravel and scorpions..."

Dear Life: When you give me dilemmas, I make dilemmanade.

Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off... the right pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the bases.

You can't count the bad things that happen. They don't count against life. They are life. Only count the good things. Let every blessing strengthen you.

The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson.

Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.

Experience is the thorn-lined road to success.

Life is not a fairy tale. If you lose your shoe at midnight, chance are you will be walking home barefoot.

It is easier to become a father than to be one.

Fibromyalgia, you slow me down but you ain't stoppin' me!

If you think it's tough being a firefighter, try being a firefighter's spouse.

No wife can ever endure a gambling husband unless he is a steady winner.

If life throws stones at you, crush them and throw back glitter.

Statesmen are not called upon only to settle easy questions. These often settle themselves. It is where the balance quivers, and the proportions are veiled in mist, that the opportunity for world-saving decisions presents itself.

Loss — the great redefiner of life.

Stumbling over all those little moments of grief is just a part of moving forward.

But the unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to get out of than bad ones.

Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.

There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.

If you think you have it tough, read history books.

One broken hind leg, he went on. Three broken ribs, one at least of which has pierced the lungs. He has lost nearly all the blood in his body. There is a large likelihood of internal injuries. He must have been jumped upon. To say nothing of three bullet holes clear through him. One chance in a thousand is really optimistic. He hasn't a chance in ten thousand.

La raza humana está destinada a internarse más y más en la noche de los tiempos primitivos, hasta que vuelva a empezar su sangrante marcha hacia la nueva civilización.

Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there's a reason it gets beaten down. Usually we don't like it very much.

She wondered whether the world's problems might be solved by access to the stars. Or simply exported.