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Quotes About Challenges

Life is simple, it's just not easy.
~ Inglath Cooper
The more obstacles you encounter, the harder you must fight to meet your destiny. Never let adversity win. Never give up on yourself and the good you can bring to the world.
~ Ingrid Weir
As her mom had always told her whenever a new surgery was imminent, though, the only way to secure a better future was to tackle the hard stuff in the present. That was true on an interpersonal level as it had been for her physical challenges through the years.
~ Irene Hannon
Love isn't always easy, is it?
~ Irene Hannon
Love isn't easy, it is? That's because we're all different. We don't fit together as cleanly as the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Sometimes there are gaps. Rough edges. Holes. The finished product when we come together isn't always perfect. But as we're reminded in Corinthians, a love that keeps no record of wrongs...that perseveres...never fails.
~ Irene Hannon
We mustn't give trouble a shape before it throws its shadow.
~ Irene Hunt
Accept the fact that this is a man's world and learn how to play the game gracefully, my sweet.
~ Irene Hunt
Larissa grew quiet, her skin burnished with a rosy glow. Through childhood, she had been the easiest of children, clingy and shy, but eager to please Nadia. The former was just now shedding but a difficult age was looming, when you could visibly see the closing of the gates, your child's mind shutting itself off from you growing impenetrable. Just in the last few months, Nadia watched a new, defiant personality that was pushing against the safe borders carefully crafted for her.
~ Unknown
Never give up in the face of adversity. It is in the midst of adversity that we grow stronger.
~ Unknown
Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.
~ Irving Stone
His bright hope had become a black cloud of despair.
~ Irving Wallace
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.
~ Irwin Shaw
The modern world, he thought resentfully, prepares you very poorly for the tests it puts you to.
~ Irwin Shaw
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
~ Isaac Asimov
There are people in this world who are doomed to die, and there are people who have not yet begun to live.
~ Unknown
The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice opinions no one wants to hear . . .
~ Isabel Allende
No type has everything. The introverts and thinkers, though likely to arrive at the most profound decisions, may have the most difficulty in getting their conclusions accepted. The opposite types are best at communicating, but not as adept at determining the truths to be communicated.
~ Isabel Briggs Myers
With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.
~ Isadora Duncan
Possiamo fare solo quello che possiamo; ma questo dobbiamo farlo, nonostante le difficoltà.
~ Isaiah Berlin
Who can ever know what path to walk on when all of them are either crooked or broken? One just has to walk.
~ Ishmael Beah
Little children, headache; big children, heartache.
~ Italian proverb
Le imprese più ardite vanno vissute con l'animo più semplice. (Cosimo Piovasco Barone di Rondò)
~ Italo Calvino
A los duelos suceden tarde o temprano acontecimientos alegres, es ley de vida.
~ Italo Calvino
This machine, the wheelchair, I can go all over the place, but you need a place without stairs to get in.
~ Itzhak Perlman