Quotes About Challenges

Looking back I see that I was always afraid of something: of the dark, of displeasing people, of failure. Anything I accomplished had to be done across a barrier of fear. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

People can surmount what seems to be total defeat, difficulties too great to be borne, but it requires a capacity to readjust endlessly to the changing conditions of life.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to really look fear in the face... Do the thing you think you cannot do.

If people only realized what a war goes on in a child's mind and heart in a situation of this kind, I think they would try to explain more than they do

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give

Often people have asked me, "How do you recover from disaster?" I don't know any answer except the obvious one: You do it by meeting it and going on. From each you learn something, from each you acquire additional strength and confidence in yourself to meet the next one when it comes.

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

Every intense relationship between human beings is full of traps, and if you want it to endure you have to learn to avoid them.

A child, yes, is a vortex of anxieties.

Non ho nostalgia della nostra infanzia, è piena di violenza. Ci succedeva di tutto, in casa e fuori, ma non ricordo di aver mai pensato che la vita che c'era capitata fosse particolarmente brutta. La vita era così è basta, crescevamo con l'obbligo di renderla difficile agli altri prima che gli altri la rendessero difficile a noi.

Toda relación intensa entre seres humanos está plagada de cepos y si se quiere que dure hay que aprender a esquivarlos.

En los cuentos se hace lo que se quiere y en la vida real se hace lo que se puede.

How difficult it is to find one's way , how difficult it is not to violate any of the incredibly detailed male regulations.

Si me veo expuesta a los lagartos, combatiré contra los lagartos. Si me veo expuesta a las hormigas, combatiré contra las hormigas. Si me veo expuesta a los ladrones, combatiré contra los ladrones. Si me veo expuesta a mí misma, lucharé contra mí.

Toda relação intensa entre seres humanos é cheia de armadilhas e, caso se queira que dure, é preciso aprender a desviar-se delas.

El mundo está prodigiosamente cambiado y les pertenece cada vez más a ellas, cada vez menos a mí [...] lo que cuenta son estas muchachas tan competentes que no se han encontrado ni una de las dificultades con las que yo he tenido que vérmelas. Tienen unos modales, unas voces, unas exigencias, unas pretensiones, una conciencia de sí mismas que yo ni siquiera hoy me atrevo a permitirme.

tal vez cada relación con los hombres se limita a reproducir las mismas contradicciones, y en ciertos ambientes incluso las mismas respuestas complacientes.

Everything that could happen between us had happened, the rest was only complications.

Ogni rapporto intenso tra esseri umani è pieno di tagliole e se si vuole che duri bisogna imparare a schivarle. Lo

Toda la vida es así, unas veces tocan bofetones, otras veces tocan besos.

Stefano seemed to seek in her the most palpable symbol of the future of wealth and power that he intended; and she seemed to use the seal that he was placing on her to make herself, her brother, her parents, her other relatives safe from all that she had confusedly confronted and challenges since she was a child.

I nostri non erano così, mancava il tempo, mancavano i soldi, mancava la voglia

qui noi lavoratori non siamo stati mai neanche dentro le zone salariali, stiamo fuori da tutte le regole, stiamo sotto zero. Perciò è una bestemmia dire: lasciatemi in pace, io ho i miei problemi e mi voglio fare i fatti miei. Ognuno nel posto che gli è toccato, deve fare quello che può.