Quotes about Challenges

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

Experience is a teacher, a brutal teacher. But you learn, my God, do you learn.

I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way. The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.

Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.

Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.

Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

Every once in a while, I need a no-agenda day with nothing to do, but those aren't the days we're going to celebrate at the end of our lives. We won't even remember those days. What we'll remember are the days when we had everything to do, and with God's help, we did it. We won't remember the things that came easy; we'll remember the things that came hard. We'll remember the miracles on the far side of "long and boring.

They thrive in the toughest circumstances because they know that impossible odds set the stage for amazing miracles.

opportunities typically come disguised as impossible problems. And while most people run away from their problems, Shamgars run at them with their oxgoads.