Quotes About Challenges

nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies).

make your children unhappy so they can face the world, but then, what is a world without children's laughter?

To live is to be among men and to be among men is to struggle. (From Jose Rizal's letter to his nephew Alfredo or Freding)

Grammar, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet of the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.

Runners don't quit. We fade; we hit the wall; we're sometimes reduced to a walk. But we keep on.

If the worst comes to pass, these can be … discarded.

Excuse me." The cold voice behind us made me cringe for reasons that had nothing to do with falcons or Rei's abdication. Danica turned with a smile, and I struggled to do the same. Despite how well the recent months had gone, Nacola Shardae still refused to believe that a serpiente man could possibly be the right mate for her only daughter. Because of that, she hated me as only a mother could.

Plans have a way of coming apart when you lean om 'em

Time hasn't been kind." "Time never is. A fighter keeps fighting even so. Thought you were a fighter?

I got bigger problems than that life hasn't turned out the way you hoped. You can harp on the past all you please, Dow, like some old woman upset cause her tits used to stay up by themselves, or you can shut your fucking hole and help me get on with things.

You can't change the fact the world's full of arseholes. You can only change how you deal with them.

For a man reckoned clever, he got wedged in a lot of stupid corners.

A man is measured by his enemies. Worthy ones can be more missed than friends.

Help with strange problems comes from strange people.

It's a hard world. No one gets what they deserve.

hope's like damp – however much you try to keep it out there's always a little gets in.

have often said that life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

Solo se puede conquistar los miedos afrontándolos. Si los rehúyes, te conquistan ellos a ti.»

No debería haberse permitido albergar ilusiones, pero las esperanzas son como las malas hierbas, que siguen apareciendo por muchas veces que las desbroces.

You don't pick your family, you take what you're given and you make the best of it.

Progress just means bad things happen faster." Terry Pratchett

Hate us if you like. We're used to it. No one likes to shake hands with the man who empties the latrine pit either, but pits have to be emptied all the same. Otherwise, the world fills up with shit.

Life rarely turns out the way we expect. We must bend with the circumstances.

Enemies are the price of success