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Quotes About Challenges

There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.
~ William Halsey
I have a great husband, great parents and in-laws, and I have help with a nanny. It's not easy, but there are others who do it every day and don't have a high-profile job as I do.
~ Marlee Matlin
Water is finite and we have not done a great job of managing it in the past.
~ Sandra Postel
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
~ Rose Kennedy
The perfect life is the combination of great moments and bad ones, and under that point of view, my life is fantastic, because I've certainly hit more than one bump.
~ Alex Zanardi
Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.
~ David Mamet
That should be the goal, is that every kid in every neighborhood, despite whatever challenges they may face, are getting a great education in our public schools.
~ Michelle Rhee
Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.
~ Bill Gates
Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.
~ Mercy Otis Warren
Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.
~ Christopher Alexander
Don't dodge difficulties; meet them, greet them, beat them. All great men have been through the wringer.
~ Alfred Armand Montapert
I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.
~ Robert Falcon Scott
What great faith our Lord Jesus Christ asks of us - and how just that is. Do we not owe him such faith? It looks impossible to us, but Jesus is Master of the impossible.
~ Charles de Foucauld
Remember that just the moment you say, "I give up," someone else seeing the same situation is saying, "My, what a great opportunity."
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving
~ Napoleon Hill
Those times when you feel like quitting can be times of great opportunity, for God uses your troubles to help you grow.
~ Warren W. Wiersbe
I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was.
~ Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Great changes are easier than small ones.
~ Francis Bacon
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
~ John Burroughs
Through the years you, the Delaware State family and your predecessors, have faced many challenges. You worked through them with fierce determination and good will, and you have made great progress.
~ Michael N. Castle
The country is not in good condition.
~ Calvin Coolidge
I enjoy playing other people. It's a great job and it's challenging. I couldn't do a desk job.
~ Christopher Parker
My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.
~ James Caan
Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.
~ Brian Tracy