Quotes about Challenges

When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.

Life pushes all of us around. Some people give up and others fight. A few learn the lesson and move on. They welcome life pushing them around. To these few people it means they need and want to learn something.

Life is the best teacher of all. Most of the time, life does not talk to you. It just sort of pushes you around. Each push is life saying, 'Wake up'. There is something I want you to learn.

Red hair is my life long sorrow.

It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that 'this, too, will pass away.

I heard someone once say that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

You know there are some people, like Matthew and Mrs. Allen, that you can love right off without any trouble. And there are others, like Mrs. Lynde, that you have to try very hard to love. You know you ought to love them because they know so much and are such active workers in the church, but you have to keep reminding yourself of it all the time or else you forget.

whenever we think of anything that is a trial to us we should also think of something nice that we can set over against it.

Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.

And anyhow I'd always be too tired at night to bother saying prayers. People who have to look after twins can't be expected to say their prayers. Now

into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.