Quotes About Challenges

Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat. I know what I'm askin'. I know it's a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.

I think it's a tough road if you're a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don't. It's the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time.

Life is getting up one more time than you've been knocked down.

The woman's position in the world today is so much harder than a man's that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.

Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.

Winning often teaches you about losing and losing often teaches you about winning and a lot of things also happen by luck and you have to be at the right place at the right time.

There's always a race against time. I don't think for one moment that life gets better. How can it? One's body starts to fall apart.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.

I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.

You face adversity all the time. I accept what lies ahead and then I do my best. You can't take things too seriously, and you can't use things as an excuse or you'll never get through.

If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time.

A week is a long time in politics.

Even championship-winning teams don't play well all the time.

I was very active but I was dyslexic and had a really hard time at school.

But things move on and by the time you've plotted your position the world around you has changed and you are running -panting- to catch up.

We educators stand at a special point in time

Prepare for the unknown, unexpected and inconceivable . . . after 50 years of flying I'm still learning every time I fly.

Star Trek says that it has not all happened, it has not all been discovered, that tomorrow can be as challenging and adventurous as any time man has ever lived.

There are no mistakes, only lessons. If you don't learn the lesson the first time, they get harder.