Quotes About Challenges

To be a husband or wife, to be a parent, is inevitably to be aware of so many disappointing, exasperating things about your mate or child, but at the same time to see those people in depth, to see them with both eyes, and to be reminded of why you still love them.

They had answers to all of their own questions, but no answer for mine.

If we think of life as a kind of Olympic games, some of life's crises are sprints. They require maximum emotional concentration for a short time. Then they are over, and life returns to normal. But other crises are distance events. They ask us to maintain our concentration over a much longer period of time, and that can be a lot harder.

There are many challenges, there are many obstacles let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.

Working to restore our voice with members of our first family can be a terrific learning experience. We didn't choose these difficult folks, but, as adults, how we talk to them is up to us. Observing and changing our part in family conversations is one royal road to change. In other words, if you can learn to speak clearly and to respond in a new way with your difficult mother or sister, then other relationships will be a piece of cake.

The challenge in all intimate relationships is to preserve both the "I" and the "we" without losing either when the going gets tough. If we're faced with a choice, we need to choose speech over silence, keep our behavior in line with our stated values and beliefs—and save ourselves first.

Change is an anxiety-arousing business, both for the one doing the changing and for those affected by the change. Often we fear that another person's move toward new ideas and experiences will create a gulf so wide that we will not be able to reach them.

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I had crossed the line. I was free but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

Milly nodded absent-mindedly and stared into the fire. She was thinking now of Suse, busily bossing the candy and crackerjack making in the kitchen. Aye, Lord, it would be better never to have a girl child; they saw nothing but pain and trouble and work, and so many went wrong, or else married some good-for-nothing little feist when they were too little to know that kisses come easier than victuals and that a houseful of youngens comes easiest of all.

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

Where there are problems, it is implied that there are solutions; sometimes the solution is to endure the problem, and one problem passes and another appears. But there are some insoluble predicaments which we must transcend.

Prosperity often subverts what adversity cannot destroy

The negative side of marriage remains long after the positive goals have been discarded.

I don't really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric... I'm not operating on somebody's brain, you know what I mean? So I just think it's all funny.

It was not any one thing that scared him. It was everything. It was his life. His life terrified him. He didn't see how he was going to get through the rest of it.

Whatever the situation and however disheartening it may be, it is a great hour when a man ceases adopting difficulties as an excuse for despondency and tackles himself as the real problem. No mood need be his master.

You can't stop the world and get off, so you just have to learn to live on it.

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.

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

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

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

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Within the first few months I discovered that being President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or be swallowed.