Challenges Quotes

The life I've had, the difficulties, the hardships, the pain I've suffered since I was a child. It's a great privilege to have led a difficult life, and many people in my generation have had this privilege - I sometimes wonder if young people today aren't deprived of the dramas that shaped us.

The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.

If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't have hits, you don't get recorded again.

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south; but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be a neighbor, there is anunsettled wilderness between him and Canada, between him and the setting sun, or, farther still, between him and it. Let him build himself a log house with the bark on where he is, fronting IT, and wage there an Old French war for seven or seventy years, with Indians and Rangers, or whatever else may come between him and the reality, and save his scalp if he can.

There was never a promise that race relations in America would be entirely resolved during my presidency or anybody's presidency. I mean, this has been a running thread - and - and fault line in American life and American politics since its founding.

You can't climb a smooth mountain

The United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer to enter: the slot between the fantastic and the drab seems too narrow.

The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.

An optimist sees the oportunity in every difficulty.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

You know...it's a hard age. Kids are in that stage where they're beginning to understand the world of adults, without having the maturity of adults to deal with everything going on around them.

It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last.

If you take the time and put in the effort to write your own material and absolutely refuse to be denied the right to make your film it is difficult whatever colour you are.

If things go wrong and you hit a dead end-as you will-it's just life's way of saying it's time to change course

They have not any difficulties on the way up because they fly, but they have many when they reach the summit.

The more obstacles you face and overcome, the more times you falter and get back on track, the more difficulties you struggle with and conquer, the more resiliency you will naturally develop. There is nothing that can hold you back, if you are resilient.

Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and ell pie. You want something to sober you down a bit. We're only saying it for your own good, Puddleglum.' That's what they say. Now a job like this --a journey up north just as winter's beginning looking for a prince that probably isn't there, by way of ruined city nobody's ever seen-- will be just the thing. If that doesn't steady a chap, I don't know what will.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

I try to view the challenges in my life not as annoyances, but as confirmations of fortitude.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended.

An inconvenience is an unrecognized opportunity.

There is nothing more difficult to find than oneself.

What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life! Indeed, the unchallenged bravery which these studies imply, is far more impressive than the trumpeted valor of the warrior.

To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.

Every little obstacle-every fall you have-is an opportunity.

You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left.

Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself.

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.

Obstacles are merely a call to strengthen your resolve to achieve your worthwhile goals.

All trials force the question, Who are you really? And you must trust yourself to answer

In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I'm very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.

Every obstacle is a test.

If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.

We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism.

Watch for big problems. They disguise big opportunities.

Problems are not my problem. It's not what happens to me but what happens in me that matters.

It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had - to find the greatness that lies within each of us.

I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind.

When you govern a country, and especially a country so vast and complex as India, you never arrive at anything.

A person with an outstanding attitude makes the best of it while he gets the worst of it.

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.

People don't really know whether they are committed to something until they face adversity.

Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts: then the coalition of Pilnitz, outlawing our commerce with France, and the British enforcement of the outlawry. In your day French depredations; in mine English, and the Berlin and Milan decrees: now the English orders of council, and the piracies they authorize. When these shall be over, it will the impressment of our seamen, or something else; and so we have gone on, and so we shall go on, puzzled and prospering beyond example in the history of man.

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

You don't overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.

Growth requires facing where you're at so you can go to the NEXT LEVEL

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance. You can't avoid the daily tremors. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.

The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience.

The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life.

There are very real obstacles and challenges to any course of action. And there's no need to add to them, by making up obstacles of your own. Unchain yourself from the bondage of your own thinking.

Everyone wants to be an overcomer, but nobody wants anything to overcome.

I like policy. It's why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government - you have good days, you have bad days, but you never have a boring day, and that's important to me.