Quotes About Challenges

I've faced worse things in my life than prison

It's a mistake to try to avoid the unpleasant things in life... But I'm beginning to consider it.

The nasty little secret was that I couldn't read worth a darn. In my case, I still read very slowly to this moment.

Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.

It is always the way of events in this life,...no sooner have you got settled in a pleasant resting place, than a voice calls out to you to rise and move on, for the hour of repose is expired.

To speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse.

Throughout my whole life money has always been a problem. But I didn't realize that we were poor when we were kids!

Where I come from, there were traditions with my race and whenever you faced a curve in life, there was always a tradition.

What makes a person a success is how they handle the lows in life and how they make their comeback.

A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending.

Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

I've had a lot of fear in my life, from fear of flying to fear of making a speech in front of a lot of people.

Most surprising is probably that I thought I had experienced most of the low points life has to offer... but you reach new lows when you are hungover changing a nappy and throw up into it.

Music was my whole life, not a career. It definitely was never easy... Still isn't.

It's true that the people that succeed in life are the people that keep getting up after they fall down, but no one gets through without falling down.

If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.

The air will always be to filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.

I believe that we live in a time of fractured families where maybe fathers aren't getting enough time to see their kids because life's complications and hardships get in the way of those things.

I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family.

I don't think anyone has a normal family.

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

ROD RODDENBERRY There was a great quote that D. C. Fontana said about Nichelle Nichols and having a black officer on the bridge and what my father said to that. Apparently, he would get letters from the TV stations in the South saying they won't show Star Trek because there is a black officer, and he'd say, "Fuck off, then.

But one of the things I was proudest of with Deep Space Nine is that I began to realize that it takes a great deal more courage to stay and deal with problems that don't get solved than it is to go in, meet somebody, change their lives or have them teach us something, and then zoom out to the next person.

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