Quotes About Challenges

Aspiring female leaders risk being liked but not respected, or respected but not liked, in settings that may require individuals to be both in order to succeed.

has the American presidency become the most impossible job in the world?

Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.

Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you're good, bad things can still happen. And if you're bad, you can still be lucky.

Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greatest gems of light.

Quite simply, as a generation, we had too many choices. And when you have a choice, you want to make the right one, especially if you have great expectations.

I pictured my clothesline full of troubles and saw myself pinning on another one.

That night when I went to bed, I laid there in the dark and pictured a clothesline full of somebody else's troubles. I knew for sure there were a lot of them I'd rather pluck off of that line than mine. I imagined what the other troubles might be. There would probably be toothaches and failed math tests. Lost cats and ugly hair. Cheating boyfriends and broken-down cars. But none of those could hold a candle to my troubles, weighing down that clothesline like a sack full of bricks.

After all, life was like that for most of us – the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather than the great renunciations and dramatic love affairs of history or fiction.

I wondered that she should waste so much energy fighting over a little matter like wearing hats in chapel, but then I told myself that, after all, life was like that for most of us -- the small unpleasantness rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather than the great renunciations and dramatic love affairs of history or fiction.

Allesandra stood close against Nero's flank flank and looked into her brother's blue eyes, "Your knowledge will keep me safe - or as safe as a girl with dreams can ever be in this small minded world

sometimes life is really hard. It just is. Things happen that make you want to die, but if you hang on, they do eventually get better.

Those two had a lot of shocks ahead. Everybody did—that was the bitch of it, wasn't it? Nothing ever stayed smooth and beautiful and good, not skin, not faces, not the road of life. What mattered was the way you lived with what happened to you.

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

We weigh ourselves down with so many obstacles we can't even buy a goldfish bowl.

Frustration is supposed to create action, not make you give up.

Think of your own life. Haven't your most valuable lessons come from your most trying experiences? Hard times, like heavy weights, build muscle. I observed, among the women I interviewed, that the most audacious were those who had endured the most adversity, especially as children

Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself.

Between policy-makers in the capital and realities in the field lies an eternal gap whitened by the bones of failed and futile efforts.

Between the happening of a historical process and its recognition by rulers, a lag stretches, full of pitfalls.

The times have been bad, the hay was black with rain, the corn did not kern well, the mottled cow dropped her calf, the tenants have not paid, and so my poor boy gets nothing but advice in bushels and exhortations in yards.

Marriage stinks, with a capital SUCK!

Today, more than half of the people in our world live on less than $2 each per day, and one billion people are mired in extreme poverty, living on less than $1 each per day.

The results have been devastating. Today, more than half of the people in our world live on less than $2 each per day, and one billion people are mired in extreme poverty, living on less than $1 each per day.