Quotes about Challenges

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You'll find they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

The test of mountain-top experiences, of mysticism, of visions of God and of solitariness is when you are "in the soup" of actual circumstances.

God does not give us overcoming life: He gives us life as we overcome. The strain is the strength. If there is no strain, there is no strength.

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on our difficulties

The grace you had yesterday will not be sufficient for today.

Thank God that He does give us difficult things to do! His salvation is a joyous thing, but it is also something that requires bravery, courage, and holiness. It tests us for all we are worth.