39 Challenges Quotes

I recently had my problems on the run, but now they've re-grouped, and are making another attack.

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.

The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Evolution is an obstacle course not a freeway; the correct analogue for long-term success is a distant punt receiver evading legions of would-be tacklers in an oddly zigzagged path toward a goal, not a horse thundering down the flat.

Why does life keep teaching me lessons I have no desire to learn?

As artists, it's our job to delve into the uncomfortable, the difficult and the challenging.

A woman is like a teabag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.

'Face the brutes.' That is a lesson for all life-face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.

Tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

Remember that life is hard, but when you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

When I Asked God for Strength He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face

Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties

A year ago my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the Supreme Court had just withdrawn, and my vice president had shot someone. Ah, those were the good ol' days.

'Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.' - Kobe Bryant[4]

This test has much in common with the other great challenges that are defining this young century -- from weapons proliferation, to the spread of disease, to transnational terrorism. These are truly global problems, and no one nation, no matter how much power or political will it possesses, can succeed alone. We all need partners, and we all need to work in concert.

Our military and our nation are entering another period of consequences - a time of rapid change and momentous choices.

God sends burdens, and shoulders, too.

Mrs Prentice: You put me in an impossible position. Nick: No position is impossible when you're young and healthy.

'Well, I had to do a nude scene [in the play Indiscretions], and you're on stage naked but you get over it, you do whatever you have to do. But the first night, my character is just getting out of the bath, and the rest of the crew had poured in freezing cold water.'

He thought he was gonna die, But he didn't. She thought she just couldn't cope, But she did. We thought it would be so hard, But it wasn't... It wasn't easy, though!

Paul likes to test himself. That's what makes Paul run. He's got a lot of courage, a highly underrated element in people's lives these days.

The plight of the cities--their physical decay and human despair that pervades them--is the great internal problem of the American nation, a challenge which must be met. (Buffalo NY, 1-20-67)

When I asked God for intelligence He Gave Me Puzzles to Solve.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

In this entire century the Democratic Party has never been invested with power on the basis of a program which promised to keep things as they were. We have won when we pledged to meet the new challenges of each succeeding year. We have triumphed not in spite of controversy, but because of it; not because we avoided problems, but because we faced them. We have won, not because we bent and diluted our principles, but because we stood fast to the ideals which represent the most noble and generous portion of the American spirit.

Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

One has to greatly admire the patience with which our society has come to terms with all the challenges of these dramatic times, the extent of which few of us could have anticipated in those heady, revolutionary days.

Dark as pitch.

... you need more than luck to navigate successfully through a thousand sieves in succession.