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Quotes about Challenges

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
- Peter Marshall
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
- Charles Swindoll
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this
- Henry Ford
All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
- Walt Disney
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
- Zig Ziglar
Experience is a teacher, a brutal teacher. But you learn, my God, do you learn.
- CS Lewis
I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way. The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.
- Marianne Williamson
In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.
- Napoleon Hill
Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.
- George Muller
Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.
- Francis de Sales
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.
- Charles Dickens