Challenges Quotes

Energy is actually harder; it takes more time to get a product, but if you do it's a very, very big market and the constraints of doing that in a clean way are more obvious all the time.

Darkness is your candle.Your boundaries are your quest.

I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.

Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.

The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.

While I wholeheartedly believe in choosing to approach every challenge with a great attitude, I don't mean that we should abandon authenticity and live in fantasyland.

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

Life is a ladder, it's not a bed

I do not put much emphasis on periods of meditation - if you do meditation, it's fine - but the important thing is to bring the awareness into everyday life, into every little action that you do, into the varied challenges of everyday life.

A bad attitude is the only true handicap.

Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.

You've probably had somebody punch you in the stomach and it knocks the wind of you and you can't breathe. That's how I felt.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

No one's life is a smooth sail; we all come into stormy weather. But it's this adversity - and more specifically our resilience - that makes us strong and successful.

When the business grows, the person who founded it is incredibly busy. Rapid growth puts an enormous strain on a business. You outgrow your production facilities. You outgrow your management capabilities.

Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power, let difficulties know that you too are difficult.

Every door is another passage, another boundary we have to go beyond.

Every challenge takes you a little deeper and awakens you again and again. Without the challenges, you probably would go to back to sleep. The challenges keep you awake.

The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions.

Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.

I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products.

Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.

I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well is very hard to do. Always.

The country didn't get that way in a week; we've had years and years of getting behind in our economy. So President [Barack] Obama stepped into a hellhole and people wanted him to change it as soon as he came in. But he's got his adversaries to deal with in the House and Senate, so it's not easy.

Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.

Disasters will always come and go, leaving their victims either completely broken or steeled and seasoned and better able to face the next crop of challenges that may occur.

Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.

The fears you don’t face control you. The fears you face, you move beyond.

The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.'

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends -- honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism -- these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded, then, is a return to these truths.

I think every entertainer's had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can't remember everything all the time, and especially if you're having hard times personally, things going on that you - you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep. The dream of ordinary unconsciousness then turns into a nightmare.

What I find them struggling most isn't with one of the twelve [things from daily list]; I find them struggling with what decisions to make.

There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations.

The were good times, there were hard times, but there were never bad times

There is no breakthrough without a breakdown.

From "Wetness and Water" How does a part of the world leave the world? How can wetness leave water? Do not try to put out a fire by throwing on more fire. Do not wash a wound with blood. No matter how fast you run, your shadow more than keeps up. Sometimes it's in front. Only full, overhead sun diminishes your shadow. But that shadow has been serving you. What hurts you blesses you. Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.

Even when our heart aches, we summon the strength that maybe we didn't even know we had, and we carry on; we finish the race.

Every challenge is a disguised opportunity for salvation.

The only way around is through.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there's a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we're going to see things through to the finish or quit.

Keep trying. It's only from the valley that the mountain seems high.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

Being a woman is hard work.

I never fight, except against difficulties.

I think this is the start of something really big. Sometimes that first step is the hardest one, and we've just taken it.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

An organization that is not facing up to people who are not getting the job done, is going to have difficulties.

There is no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things!

School was pretty hard for me at the beginning.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.

Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.

Every depression is a challenge to every manufacturer to put more brains into his business.

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

We live in a time when people give up too easy.

A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.

Whenever I look at the history of presidents I deeply admire - the one thing that I'm always struck by is persistence. It's a quality that's underrated. Being able to plough through, being able to stay buoyant in the face of challenges.