Quotes About Challenges

I do not recognize these as defeats. They are but interesting experiences of life. They are valuable stepping stones to success.

Success in life is defined by how well you deal with plan B.

Adjusting to the passage of time is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

Success isnt permanent & failure isnt fatal.

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.

I fell in love with Neil's pain. We were in this cocoon of intensity. Neil and I were uniquely in the same position at the same time, having overwhelming success facing us.

Success makes opportunities and so many of those "opportunities" are actually exemptions - from hardship, from unfriendliness, from struggle.

If you want to be on top, you've got to have broad shoulders, because as fast as you get there, the faster they try to knock you down.

Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.

The problems with success, frankly, are infinitely preferable to the problems of failure.

When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome.

The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.

Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.

Setbacks and fear are inevitable. The thing that distinguishes the ultimate successes from the ultimate failures is this: What do you do with them?

We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way.

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.

Yes, my love, who soever lives, loses, . . . but he also wins. [Ger., Ja, meine Liebe, wer lebt, verliebt . . . aber er gewinnt auch.]

The boys think they can all be athletes, and the girls think they can all be singers. That's the way to fame and success. ...as a group blacks must give up their illusions.

What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.

Never will man penetrate deeper into error than when he is continuing on a road which has led him to great success

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.