Quotes About Challenges

The best have to get through the hobbledehoy age, and that's the very time they need most patience and kindness. People laugh at them, and hustle them about, try to keep them out of sight, and expect them to turn, all at once, from pretty children into fine young men. They don't complain much,--plucky little souls,--but they feel it.

I only know that it's the way of the world; and people who set themselves against it, only get laughed at for their pains.

Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her; and, meanwhile, found her greatest affliction in the fact that she couldn't read, run, and ride as much as she liked. A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.

Nuestras cargas están aquí, nuestro camino está delante de nosotras y el deseo de bondad y felicidad es lo que nos dirige a traves de muchas penas y equivocaciones hasta la paz.

A newborn baby has a powerful effect on character. But so does a toddler. A child. A preteen. A teenager. A mother changes with every stage. Some stages are within a mother's skill set. Some stages are like being told to scale a cliff using a rope attached to nothing.

Even the now-immense authority of Pierpont Morgan couldn't solve the structural problems caused by too many railroads chasing too few passengers and owing too much money.

It seems to me that as the cities grow larger the country in general becomes weaker.

He had to bide his time, though, because he first had to dispose of two legal challenges that dogged his footsteps throughout 1879.

As early as 1882, he lamented to the Reverend Edward Judson that he was swamped by charitable appeals, many from Baptist causes.

with the large interests of others on my shoulders, it cannot be done

He had prevailed in almost every major program he had sponsored—whether the bank, assumption, funding the public debt, the tax system, the Customs Service, or the Coast Guard—despite years of complaints and bitter smears.

Having weathered thirty years of assaults in the courts and statehouses, he must have felt invulnerable.

Both refiners and railroads were struggling with excess capacity and suicidal price wars.

It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming into it. Tears from the very start.

Paranoia is sometimes the best way a person can handle situations in life.

Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.

Since I came to the White House, I've gotten two hearing aids, had a colon operation, a prostate operation, skin cancer, and I've been shot...damn thing is, I've never felt better.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

I spoke to ears that refused to hear.

The best measure of success is how you deal with failure

La vida es justamente eso, un camino azaroso entre tentaciones; y la probidad no depende únicamente de la virtud de cada cual, sino también, y en cierta medida, de la suerte. De cómo, cuándo y dónde te han tentado.

El envejecimiento es un proceso orgánico bastante lamentable que apenas si tiene un par de cosas buenas (una, que, si te esfuerzas, aprendes algunas cosas; y dos, que es la mejor prueba de que no te has muerto todavía)

For women, the life choices (which by in large are made for them by their societies) come down to one of two evils - either the overloaded worker / wife / mother with her double burden, or the underoccupied housewife / drone with her half-life of deprivation and despair.

The only way to make disasters bearable is to laugh about them.