Quotes about Challenges
It is a pity," he wrote, "that people should let themselves be defeated by the problems, cares, and difficulties of human existence, and it is quite unnecessary.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Positive thinking looks upon weak places in people as challenging opportunities. You can turn them into your strongest points.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles; they toughen and make strong.
- Norman Vincent Peale
I will remember the ancient law of averages and I will bend it to my good. I will persist with knowledge that each failure to sell will increase my chance for success at the next attempt. Each nay I hear will bring me closer to the sound of yea. Each frown I meet only prepares me for the smile to come. Each misfortune I encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck. I must have the night to appreciate the day. I must fail often to succeed only once.
- Og Mandino
experienced things that caused you to deemed yourself unworthy. Healing the wounds of the past is one of the biggest and most worthwhile challenges of life. It's important to know when and how you were programed so you can change the program. In doing so is your responsibility no one else's.
- Oprah Winfrey
What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance. You can't avoid the daily tremors. They come with being alive. But I believe these experiences are gifts that force us to step to the right or left in search of a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Let them help you adjust your footing.
- Oprah Winfrey
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
- Oscar Wilde
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
- Oscar Wilde
And it may even be that in the end all problems are spiritual problems.
- Cormac McCarthy
Don't worry when you meet opposition for obeying God. Worry when you don't have opposition, because you're probably not obeying God.
- Craig Groeschel
When fate hands you lemons, make lemonade.
- Dale Carnegie
When the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.
- Dale Carnegie