Quotes about Challenges
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.
— Booker T. Washington
As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance ... but no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still-and persevere.
— Madeleine Albright
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone, the mind those of the past and future as well.
— Epicurus
Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. ... You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
— Kathleen Norris
If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.
— St. John Chrysostom
The person who sees the difficulties so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities cannot inspire a vision in others.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity.
— J. Oswald Sanders
No leader lives a day without criticism, and humility will never be more on trial than when criticism comes.
— J. Oswald Sanders
How easy it is to love a child, how hard to love what a child turns into!
— JM Coetzee
Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.
— JM Coetzee
I do believe there are things that we desire that are not in the cards. But more often than not, when people have a desire for a relationship and it's not happening, there are probably issues to be resolved and issues people could work on that would ultimately end in that desire being fulfilled.
— Henry Cloud