Quotes about Challenges

I'm given a lot of credit with opening the doors for Christian fiction. It was kind of a difficult field when I got into it... But I don't feel like a king.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Let's face it. Our ass is in a crack. We're gonna have to let this nigger bill pass. [Said to Senator John Stennis (D-MS) during debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1957]

The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.

If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

you've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty.

I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over. Sometimes these desert lines are simply the only way to the next oasis, which is far more lush and beautiful after the desert crossing than it could possibly have been without it.

I suppose that depends on how you look at it," Meg said. "Usually no matter what happens people think it's my fault, even if I have nothing to do with it at all. But I'm sorry I tried to fight him. It's just been an awful week. And I'm full of bad feeling.

Love. That's what makes persons know who they are. You're full of love, Meg, but you don't know how to stay within it when it's not easy.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat but they are no less difficult.

Use the dirt life throws at you to plant the seeds of your success.

Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!