Quotes about Challenges

Wilberforce's time at Cambridge over two hundred years ago sounds extraordinarily like the experience of many college students today.

Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.

To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn't mean we won't have difficulties along the way. We will--we all do. If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. "We can't win," we moan. "They won't let us win.

A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

I am a person of great faith and idealism and have been in too many situations too many times to become an eternal pessimist regarding politics.

When people go to rehab and come out, they go through a difficult period, but I never had that.

When you try to be a role model, not everybody can relate to some of your highs - awards, championships. But everybody can relate to the lows. Everybody's gotten fired from a job or gotten cut. People learn more about you in those lows than they do in the highs.

Hits and flops will always be there for any actor.

You should dream more, Mr Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.' 2

Life was a series of complicated tactical exercises, as complicated as the alignments at Waterloo, thought out on a brass bedstead among the crumbs of sausage roll. [p107]

in a flash of insight he became aware of the innumerable necessary evils of which life for her was made up.

Our central job is not to solve the world's problems. Our job is to draw our entire life from Christ and manifest that life to others. Nothing could be simpler—and nothing could be more challenging.