Quotes about Challenge

These are the times that try men's souls...yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives every thing value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods.

The secret of life is not in what happens to you. It is in what you do with it that happens to you.

The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle

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.