Quotes About Challenges

define personal power as a state of mind in which a person is confident he can handle whatever may come. This kind of power not only successfully deals with problems, challenges and adversity, it actually welcomes them, meets them head on, and is thankful for them. Personal power isn't the absence of fear. Even the most powerful people have fear. Personal power is the result of feeling fear, but not giving in to the fear.

Happy endings are absolutely ludicrous, they're not true at all. We see the guy carry the girl across the threshold and everybody lives happily ever after -- that's bullshit. Three weeks later he's beating her up and she's suing for divorce and he's got cancer.

In every marriage more than a week old there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.

an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.

Weathermen pay price for nature's curve balls

all problems can be reperceived as challenges, or "opportunities" to change, grow or learn.

As I noted, jobs slowly returned from the depths of the Great Recession, but in order to get them, many workers had to accept lower pay than before.

the mammoth deficits that will be racked up beyond 2020 are due almost entirely to rapidly rising health-care costs along with seventy-seven million baby boomers whose bodies will slowly be deteriorating.

Life is not all glided out to the measures of a Strauss waltz.

Of all things in this world love is the most unmanageable. Parents and guardians are sadly foiled when they undertake to guide and coerce it: and the best thing they can do with it is to leave it to itself.

Modeling isn't the glamorous job most people believe it to be. The hours and conditions can be harsh and more often than not a model's career is over before it ever starts.

The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.

Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie — not perfect but who's complaining?

What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion.

In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families — that they are least two-thirds incontinent.

Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is.

It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes.

To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question."

Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.

If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.

Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.

Most marriages can survive "better or worse." The tester is all the years of "exactly the same."

Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, "Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties."

The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it.