There comes a point in your life when you realize your hardest times are your best times, too—you will see the rainbow of your life.
~ Roy Bennett
Fritz had to stop himself from interrupting when Karl spoke about the difficulty of working. Stories are just as hard as clocks to put together, and they can go wrong just as easily--as we shall soon see with Fritz's own story in a page or two. Still, Fritz was an optimist, and Karl was a pessimist, and that makes all the difference in the world.
~ Philip Pullman
So let those people go on weeping and wailing whose self-indulgent minds have been weakened by long prosperity, let them collapse at the threat of the most trivial injuries; but let those who have spent all their years suffering disasters endure the worst afflictions with a brave and resolute staunchness. Everlasting misfortune does have one blessing, that it ends up by toughening those whom it constantly afflicts.
~ Seneca
Once there is realization of self challenge, ego versus soul, competition with others becomes futile.
~ T.f. Hodge
Don't tell me how big my problem is, tell the problem how Big I am
~ Everskeptic
Obstacles are real, but we must determine to succeed in life no matter how big and many they are.
~ Bamigboye Olurotimi
The opportunities far outweigh the disappointments.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Don’t judge me. You’re not living my life and you know nothing about my battles. You have not the faintest idea of how I manage to smile in the middle of storms or how I transform my despair into delight. You have not the faintest idea of what I have gone through and why I am who I am today. This is my life and only I know the real story. The strains, the struggles, the sorrows are all mine. They’re not for you to assess or evaluate; I give that authority to none, for My Guiding Light is Within. - Manprit Kaur
~ Manprit Kaur
All experiences are stories to be told and must be written.
If I love a dose of (good) theology or philosophy, I probably also love discipline, improvement, wisdom, and challenges. If I hate it, I am probably too comfortable and proud to try to question myself.
~ Criss Jami
Focus is a mental commitment to winning against all odds. Focus is beyond putting things together in order to reach a goal. Focus is longing for the goal; it is conditioning self to connect with the forces needed to achieve said goal. Focus is beyond toiling day and night, it is the mind's eye seeing only the harvests of the future and oblivious of the challenges of the present.
~ Asuni Ladyzeal
When life throws you a curve ball, have a good eye.
Problem can get bigger or smaller, it all depends on how we view it individually.
How blindly the world reads a man's mien! That I wear a smile does not mean I am in my comfort zone. I am only telling my challenges that I can't be distracted from the beautiful ending of my story.
~ Bayode Ojo
I'm trying to ruin it! Will had bellowed back. So I can figure out how to do it perfectly! How can you learn anything if you won't take risks?
~ Lois Lowry
Only trust me! You have fallen into a fit of despondency and there is not the least need! In fact, nothing could be more fatal, in any predicament! It encourages one to suppose that there is nothing to be done, when a little resolution is all that is wanted to bring matters to a happy conclusion.
~ Georgette Heyer
Every opportunity has challenges and when you overcome it, it turns to rewards.
~ Nazim Ambalath
In life, you will always be faced with a series of God-ordained opportunities brilliantly disguised as problems and challenges.
~ Charles Udall
Your weaknesses may not seem overwhelming, but they will create the biggest problems you face.
~ Richelle E. Goodrich
Those things that challenge the worst in us tend to strengthen the best in us.
There are no rest stops on the road of life. Otherwise they'd be congested with traffic.
If you couldn't sense heat, you'd not be alive. And if that heat never grew uncomfortable, you would never move. And if you were stagnant—unchallenged by unpredictable flares—you would never grow capable of shielding yourself from harsher flames. So yes, life was meant to drag you straight through the fire.
One thing I've learned is that in the midst of your darkest moments of tribulation, there is no such thing as mass friends.
Limitations can be reasonably expanded. We are constantly challenging our limitations. But a hobbled mind is not going anywhere.
~ Bryant Mcgill
You are an unfinished work in progress. One of the good things about life's challenges: you get to find out that you're capable of being far more than you ever thought possible.
~ Karen Salmonsohn
Per aspera ad astra, Papa,' I whispered. Through hardship to the stars.
~ Ruta Sepetys
To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.
~ Dalai Lama Xiv
God knows our situation, He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.
~ C.s. Lewis
With patience endurance, you can survive any storm.
Adaptation is the key to survival.
Our perceptions shape whether challenges are obstacles that block our path to success or important arrows that steer us in the direction we want to go.
~ Julie Connor
Through all the challenges life may throw at us, let’s not forget that we are soul mates… companions… individuals… divinely fused together by the immeasurable power of love… and that we can get through it all… as one.
~ Steve Maraboli
Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That’s what life’s all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
~ Wally Lamb
You have been cast into a race in which the wind is always at your face and the hounds are always at your heels. And to varying degrees this is true of all life. The difference is that you do not have the privilege of living in ignorance of this essential fact.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
Be brave. Take the hill. But first answer the question, What is my hill?
~ Matthew Mcconaughey
You can’t take credit for what you do when your back is against the wall.
~ Tana French
Only a master weaver could intertwine dark and light threads in such a way that all one saw was beauty when looking back at the finished tapestry.
~ Karen Witemeyer
Adversity is hidden treasure of life.
We learn much by tribulation, and by adversity our hearts are made better. -Bishop Milton Wright to Orville Wright, 20 Sept. 1908
~ David Mccullough
Without a degree of risk, there is little chance for the enormous mixture of relief and achievement that follows in its steps. It is the leap that goes on to support even greater attempts at the seemingly impossible challenges that the world often uses to sort the men from the boys, and of course, the women from the girls!
~ Graham Kerr
