Quotes about Challenge

The secret of life isn't what happens to you but what you do with what happens to you.

If you have been long defeated by a difficulty, it is probably because you have told yourself for weeks, months, and even for years that there is nothing you can do about it. But when you emphasize and reemphasize a positive attitude, you will finally convince your own consciousness that you can do something about difficulties.

Let the challenge of your ambitions, of your aspirations, rouse your slumbering and often unused powers into action.

Always remember that to every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

Grasp a difficulty by the "blade" and it cuts; grasp it by the "handle" and you can use it constructively.

Each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better.

In the mist of Difficulty lies Opportunity.

The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.

What I know for sure is that there is no strength without challenge, adversity, resistance, and often pain.

Every woman is a rebel.

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.