#Challenges Quotes

“Difficulties exist to be surmounted.”

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

“As I look back at the entire tapestry of my life, I can see from the perspective of the present moment that every aspect of my life was necessary and perfect. Each step eventually led to a higher place, even though these steps often felt like obstacles or painful experiences.”

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

“You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.”

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”

“You can't climb a smooth mountain”

“When we can identify a problem and face the problem with confidence and enthusiasm, the solution is on the way.”

“If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.”

“Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.”

“I am iron resisting the most enormous magnet there is.”

“Be in a state of gratitude for everything that shows up in your life. Be thankful for the storms as well as the smooth sailing. What is the lesson or gift in what you are experiencing right now? Find your joy not in what's missing in your life but in how you can serve.”

“Every garden presents innumerable fascinating problems.”

“The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.”

“My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.”

“Give thanks for all that shows up in your life including the stuff that you perceive to be negative, the things that you wish wouldn't have happened. Don't take anything forgranted.”

“Rather than shrinking away from your problems, grow bigger than them.”

“A positive attitude and personal motivation allow you to remain excited about what you are doing - no matter how difficult the challenges may be day to day.”

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

“You can't climb uphill by thinking downhill thoughts.”

“it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.”

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

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

“An optimist sees the oportunity in every difficulty.”

“Life is a ladder, it's not a bed”

“When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.”

“Life really is like a grindstone, in that it will either grind you down or polish you up.”

“Are you a SNIOP? Someone who is Sensitive to the Negative Influence Of Others?”

“People would pull the rug out from under me. So I learnt how to dance on a moving carpet.”

“Be content. Know that whatever comes along, you can handle it and grow from it.”

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

“Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.”

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

“Every obstacle is a test.”

“Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.”

“The only people without problems are those in cemeteries.”

“To this day, even when I hear about problems, as you've probably noticed, I tend to call them challenges. I don't dwell on them, and I immediately focus on how I can convert the challenge into an opportunity.”

“There is no breakthrough without a breakdown.”

“The only problem we really have is we think we're not supposed to have problems! Problems call us to higher level- - face & solve them now!”

“Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of life that so many people complain about.”

“My curse on playsThat have to be set up in fifty ways,On the day's war with every knave and dolt,Theater business, management of men.”

“The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.”

“We're in a tough situation because of teenage children, and then we have a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old, so my family and my responsibilities is sort of a juggle.”

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

“You can't sit at the table of success for too long or you'll feel bored and dead.”

“If you want to look for obstacles, what's wrong is always available. But so is what's right!”

“Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.”

“I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.”

“The trials and tribulations in your life make you stronger.”

“Biggest problem? Well, I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life. MONEY. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. From the very start it was a problem. Getting the money to open Disneyland. About seventeen million it took. And we had everything mortgaged including my personal insurance.”