Quotes on Challenges

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.

Jesus's miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.

From this point of view, to avoid your strengths and to focus on your weaknesses isn't a sign of diligent humility. It is almost irresponsible. By contrast the most responsible, the most challenging, and, in the sense of being true to yourself, the most honorable thing to do is face up to the strength potential inherent in your talents and then find ways to realize it.

Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay

People will be most creative when they feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction and challenge of the work itself.

I believe that to meet the challenge of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. We must all learn to work not just for our own self, family, or nation but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace, the equitable use of natural resources, and through concern for future generations, the proper care of the environment.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It turns out that the process of working toward a goal, participating in a valued and challenging activity, is as important to well-being as its attainment.

To put a woman on the ticket would challenge the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex, because it would be made to seem that the defeat of the ticket meant the defeat for a hundred years of women's chance to be truly equal with men in politics.

It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion.

Failure is not fatal. Only failure to get back up is.

The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.

Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

Life itself is always a trial. In training, you must test and polish yourself in order to face the great challenges of life.

The more a person feels skilled, the more her moods will improve; while the more challenges that are present, the more her attention will become focused and concentrated.

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.

One of the major reasons why people are not doing well is because they keep trying to get through the day. A more worthy challenge is to try to get from the day.

Face a challenge and find joy in the capacity to meet it.

We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than rising to the challenges of the age.