Quotes about Challenges

As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance ... but no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still-and persevere.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone, the mind those of the past and future as well.

Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. ... You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.

The person who sees the difficulties so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities cannot inspire a vision in others.

Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity.

No leader lives a day without criticism, and humility will never be more on trial than when criticism comes.

How easy it is to love a child, how hard to love what a child turns into!

Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.

I do believe there are things that we desire that are not in the cards. But more often than not, when people have a desire for a relationship and it's not happening, there are probably issues to be resolved and issues people could work on that would ultimately end in that desire being fulfilled.

Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.

Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.