Quotes About Challenges

When you're black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It's a dirty, dark secret; I'm glad it's coming out.

I was literally living on the edge of life, to the point where I didn't know what was going to happen, not caring, taking chances and finally landing in prison and once there, all my lines were cut.

If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.

I quit school and it's not because I'm lazy. I'm just not the social type and campus life is crazy.

All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.

Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances-it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

In life you need courage to fight the dragons. The ones who live inside and the ones who live outside

Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actor's life.

Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating.

Flow occurs in your life when your highest skills are matched to challenges that quite exactly meet them.

I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'

I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.

It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking.

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

What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.

Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.

I want people to know that there's gonna be a bad part in your life and you have to overcome it to get to the good.

Girls must be thwarted early in life.

Well, there are all kinds of gutters. Life will supply you with gutters.

Life breaks us all, but you're stronger in the places that were broken. Or you can essentially crumble, give up, and, you know, waste your life.

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.