Quotes about Challenges

Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties.

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

You Can't Stop the Waves but You Can Learn to Surf

You can't sail straight into the wind, and if you only know how to sail with the wind at your back, you will only go where the wind blows you. But if you know how to use the wind's energy and are patient, you can sometimes get where you want to go. You can still be in control

Faith turns mountains into pebbles. Fear turns pebbles into mountains.

We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

The secret to life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable.

Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear.

We've got to learn hard things in our lifetime, but it's love that gives you the strength. It's being nice to people and having a lot of fun and laughing harder than anything, hopefully every single day of your life.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.