“Life is like photography. You use the negatives to develop.” – Ziad K. Abdelnour
“We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther King
“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
“Some roses grow through concrete. Remember that.” – Brandi L. Bates
“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” – Napoleon Hill
“We must meet the challenge rather than wish it were not before us.” – William J. Brennan, Jr.
“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got.” – R. Brault
“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” – Robert Schuller
“When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up.” – Les Brown
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott
“The triumph can’t be had without the struggle.” – Wilma Rudolph
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
“Life is a circle of happiness, sadness, hard times, and good times. If you are going through hard times, have faith that good times are on the way.” – Unknown
“Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is.” – Anne Frank
“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” – Stephen King
“It’s funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places.” – Karen Marie Moning
“Hard times always lead to something great.” – Betsey Johnson
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein
“Life keeps throwing me stones. And I keep finding the diamonds…” – Ana Claudia Antunes
“Life has taught me that you can’t control someone’s loyalty. No matter how good you are to them, doesn’t mean that they will treat you the same. No matter how much they mean to you, doesn’t mean that they will value you the same. Sometimes the people you love the most, turn out to be the people you can trust the least.” – Trent Shelton
“You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‘Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.’ See the positive in negative events.” – Joel Osteen
“Attitude-flexibility is the mentality that helps us to smoothly persevere through turbulent times.” – Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana
“When hardships keep coming back, do not take it personal. It’s just life.” – Naide P Obiang
“Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed.” – Bob Riley
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
“If someone is strong enough to bring you down, show them you are strong enough to get back up.” – A. Josland
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.” – Nelson Mandela
“Press on – nothing can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.” – Calvin Coolidge
“I’ll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you’ll find your way through.” – Joan Bauer
“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.” – Lao Tzu
“Why should you continue going after your dreams? Because seeing the look on the faces of the people who said you couldn’t… will be priceless.” – Kevin Ngo
“Never regret something that once made you smile.” – Amber Deckers
“Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“The first step to greatness is believing that greatness exists within you.” – Channique Nathan
“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” – Joseph Kennedy
“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” – Duke Ellington
“I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.” – Rita Mero
“Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you’re going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.” – Thisuri Wanniarachchi
“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie
“I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.” – Audrey Hepburn
“Difficult times will come. It’s a fact of life, isn’t it? There are good times and bad times in everybody’s life.” – Raj Kosaraju
“This too shall pass.” – Persian Sufi Poets
Life Lessons Inspirational Quotes About Life And Struggles
“Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning… Anyone can start over and make a new ending.” ― Chico Xavier
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” – Seneca
“I do a good job of staying positive and just moving on.” – Katie Taylor
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“You can only lose what you cling to.”— Buddha
“Letting go does not mean you stop caring. It means you stop trying to force others to.”– Mandy Hale
“Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.” – Og Mandino
“You only struggle because you’re ready to grow but aren’t willing to let go.” – Drew Gerald
“It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.” – Ernie Harwell
“Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.”– Raymond Lindquist
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.” ― Roy T. Bennett
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” ― Maya Angelou
“It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.” ― Nicholas Sparks
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“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”– Lyndon B. Johnson
“Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.” – Carrie Underwood
“Think of each failure, each heartache, and each loss in your life as a lesson in courage and resilience.” – Kate Anderson
“Anything you can’t control is teaching you how to let go.” – Jackson Kiddard
“You can’t move forward if you’re still hanging on.” – Sue Fitzmaurice
“Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.”– Guy Finley
“Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” ― Deborah Reber
“If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn’t make it so.” ― Lev Grossman
“My greatest life lessons have not come from any achievements I have attained but rather from the failures, heartaches, and setbacks that I have experienced.” – Dr. Marshall Hennington
“Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past.”– Dan Brown
“It’s not the mistake that matters, it’s how you interpret the lesson.” – Michelle C. Ustaszeski
“Letting go isn’t a one-time thing, it’s something you have to do every day, over and over again.” – Dawson’s Creek
“Why let go of yesterday? Because yesterday has already let go of you.” – Steve Maraboli
“I am learning to love the sound of my feet walking away from things not meant for me.” – A.G.
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“Your past does not equal your future.”– Anthony Robbins
“Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.” ― Nicole Sobon
“You don’t have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.” ― Jojo Moyes
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“We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.” ― Rick Warren
“Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.” – Les Brown
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”– Herman Hesse
“Most people claim that they feel like they’re trapped in a rat race, without an exit. While we can all feel this way from time to time, it’s important to know that there is a way out.” – Debeena Harris
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.” ― Plato
“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” ― Richard Branson
“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.” – John C. Maxwell
“We all make them, the difference is what we do after we make the mistake, how we see the mistake – a learning experience or a failure.” – Catherine Pulsifer
“You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you.” – Maxwell Maltz
“There is no sense in punishing your future for the mistakes of your past. Forgive yourself, grow from it, and then let it go.” – Melanie Koulouris
Quotes About Life Struggles And Overcoming Them
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”– Robert Kennedy
“Life keeps throwing me stones. And I keep finding the diamonds.”– Ana Claudia Antunes
“One who conquers the sea today is ready to conquer the ocean tomorrow.”– Matshona Dhliwayo
“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.”– Charles Dickens
“We don’t develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”– Barbara De Angelis
“Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.”– Martha Graham
“Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.”– Lou Holtz
“You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.”– Golda Meir
“There’s nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.”– Woody Hayes
“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.”– Malcolm X
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”– Kenji Miyazawa
“Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.”– Josh Billings
“We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.”– Lucius Anneaus Seneca
“There is no education like adversity.”– Benjamin Disraeli
“The most beautiful people I’ve known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.”– Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”– Chinese Proverb
“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you’re doing the impossible.”– Francis of Assisi
“Take a limitation and turn it into an opportunity. Take an opportunity and turn it into an adventure by dreaming BIG!”– Jo Franz
“He who doesn’t want to face his challenges shall always face challenges!”– Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“Because some people see a wall, and assume that’s the end of their journey. Others see it, and decide it’s just the beginning.”– Angeline Trevena
“To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.”– Gail Sheehy
“If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have never done before don’t be afraid to step out. You have more capability than you think you do but you will never see it unless you place a demand on yourself for more.”– Joyce Meyer
“A new challenge keeps the brain kicking and the heart ticking.”– E. A. Bucchianeri
“Let your joy scream across the pain.”– Terri Guillemets
“There are many people in the world who have succeeded in climbing the ladder of achievement. Some of these people have persevered throughout their career having met what appeared insurmountable obstacles yet overcame these challenges to keep moving forward.”– Byron Pulsifer
“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.”– Bernice Johnson Reagon
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”– Haruki Murakami
“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”– Seth Godin
“Always listen to experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done, and why. Then do it.”– Robert A. Heinlein
“Some people will just go with the flow of things and sway in life, while others will fight against the currents and go upstream to reach their destiny.”– Anthony Liccione
“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”– Rabindranath Tagore
“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back.”– Paulo Coelho
“Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.”– Rikkie Rogers
“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Strength and courage aren’t always measured in medals and victories. They are measured in the struggles they overcome. The strongest people aren’t always the people who win, but the people who don’t give up when they lose.”– Ashley Hodgeson
“I really believe in the old expression that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. It’s through adversity that you find the strength you never knew you had.”– Christie Brinkley
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”– Ernest Hemmingway
“A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.”– Vernon Howard
“He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.”– Louisa May Alcott
“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”– Marcus Aurelius
“There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.”– Dalai Lama XIV
Life Struggle Quotes And Sayings
“Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.”– Cassandra Clare
“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”– Robert Louis Stevenson
“Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don’t think you can, hold on.”– James Frey
“Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.”– Susan Gale
“Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others … Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.”– Katherine Mansfield
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”– Khalil Gibran
“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”– Christopher Reeve
“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
“Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.”– Chris Bradford
“You can’t really be strong until you can see a funny side to things.”– Ken Kesey
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.” ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. some people are better at hiding it than others.” ~ Will Smith , Struggle quotes about pain
“Struggles make you stronger and the changes make you wiser and happiness has its own way of taking its sweet time. Life isn’t always lovely, but it’s a beautiful ride.” ~ Gary Allan
“The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” ~ Helen Keller , Struggle quotes about life
“Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.” ~ John Steinbeck
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ~ Confucius
“If you fight you won’t always win. But if you don’t fight you will always lose” ~ Bob Crow
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” ~ Frederick Douglass
“Man has become great through struggle” ~ Adolf Hitler
“No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.” ~ Helen Keller
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” ~ Mother Teresa
“Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.” ~ Og Mandino
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” ~ Sigmund Freud
“We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.” ~ Robert G. Allen
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
“If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you’re really not ready to be successful.” ~ Kevin Hart , Struggle quotes give up
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“Always remember that striving and struggle precede success even in the dictionary.” ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
“There’s no satisfaction without a struggle first.” ~ Marty Liquori
“Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
“The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.” ~ Steven Furtick
“When you struggle to reach for something you don’t know, that’s where most of the interesting stuff is.” ~ Herbie Hancock
“Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.” ~ Albert Einstein
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.” ~ Wendy Mass
“The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
“Life’s a climb. But the view is great.” ~ Miley Cyrus
“The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.” ~ Blaise Pascal
“Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.” ~ Og Mandino
“But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for.” ~ Paulo Coelho
Inspirational Short Quotes About Life And Struggles
“Don’t feel entitled to anything you didn’t sweat and struggle for.” ~ Marian Wright Edelman
“Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
“Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn’t come before.” ~ Shelby Steele
“Unfortunately this earth is not a fairyland, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.” ~ Martin Bormann
“Life is a beautiful struggle.” ~ Talib Kweli
“I find my own pain and others’ difficult to tolerate, so I always want to try to shift things so they’ll be better. But in doing that, if I am coming from a place of ego, I often cause harm. So it’s a struggle for me to set my ego outside and find a softer and more compassionate way of approaching things.” ~ Danny Boyle
“We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.” ~ John Steinbeck
“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” ~ Rosa Luxemburg
“I find my own pain and others’ difficult to tolerate, so I always want to try to shift things so they’ll be better. But in doing that, if I am coming from a place of ego, I often cause harm. So it’s a struggle for me to set my ego outside and find a softer and more compassionate way of approaching things.” ~ Danny Boyle
“We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.” ~ John Steinbeck
“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” ~ Rosa Luxemburg
“The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.” ~ Samuel Smiles
“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.” ~ Peter Marshall
“Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.” ~ Amos Bronson Alcott
“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” ~ Napoleon Hill
“The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.” ~ Robert H. Schuller
“For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.” ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.” ~ Lucretius
“All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.” ~ Pope Paul VI
“There is scarcely any passion without struggle.” ~ Albert Camus
“The happiness we seek cannot be found through grasping, trying to hold on to things. It cannot be found through getting serious and uptight about wanting things to go in the direction we think will bring happiness. We are always taking hold of the wrong end of the stick. The point is that the happiness we seek is already here and it will be found through relaxation and letting go rather than through struggle.” ~ Pema Chodron
“The life of man is a struggle on earth. But without a cross, without a struggle, we get nowhere. The victory will be ours if we continue our efforts courageously, even when at times they appear futile.” ~ Boniface Wimmer
“Stress is a choice. Do you buy that? Some people have a hard time with the idea. Yes, bad things happen: The economy sours, our business struggles, the stock market tumbles, jobs are lost, people around us don’t follow through, deadlines are missed, projects fail, good people leave. Life is full of these. But still, stress is a choice because whatever the ‘trigger event,’ we always choose our own response. We choose to react angrily. We choose to stuff our emotions and keep quiet. We choose to worry. Stress is a choice.” ~ John G. Miller
“Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.” ~ Napoleon Hill
“Sometimes, life’s challenges are tough to deal with. You will succeed if you focus your thoughts on how to overcome the challenge.” – Catherine Pulsifer
“It’s in the ‘valleys’ of your life that you can drink from God’s sweetest streams.” – Richard Daly
“It’s not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.” – J.R.R.Tolkien
“My story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one’s purpose, how to overcome fear and to stand up for causes bigger than one’s self.” – Coretta Scott King
“Be someone’s strength. Be someone’s inspiration. Be someone’s reason to never give up.”
“You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.” — Brene Brown
“Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.” — Bernadette Devlin
“There are better people in the world, do not let the worst do the worst to you, you deserve the best in life.” — Michael Bassey Johnson
“If there is one thing I have learned through my struggles in life, its todays trials will be tomorrows faded memories.” – Angelique Bochnak
“Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.” – Bruce Lee
“No matter how much it hurts now, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.”
Life is Full of Struggles Quotes
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein
“ Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.” – Bette Davis
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy
“Be thankful for each new challenge, because it will build your strength and character.” – Unknown
“I don’t run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your foot.” – Nadia Comaneci
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” – Chinese proverb
“You see a mousetrap; I see free cheese and a fucking challenge!” – Scroobius Pip
“There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it’s not really there.” – Bill McKibben
“Our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back.” – Paulo Coelho
“Hope and change are hard-fought things.” – Michelle Obama
“Remember, rainbows have never been attracted to cloudless days. They only follow the storms.”― Richelle E. Goodrich
“Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.” – Amelia Earhart
“It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.” – Abigail Adams
“I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it’s going to work or whether I’m going to fall flat on my face.” – Johnny Depp
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” – John F. Kennedy
“To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.” – Dalai Lama
“Embracing each challenge can turn it into a privilege.”― Tonmoy Acharjee
“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s a day you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it.” – Margaret Thatcher
“If you compared your troubles, or challenges, with those of others, you would surely find that there are those whose troubles make yours look like minor inconveniences.” – Catherine Pulsifer
“Challenges contain the seeds of our glory.”― Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
“Understand that it is ok to be scared or uncertain, however right beyond those barriers ultimately lies your dreams.” – Josh Hinds
“By cultivating gratitude you eventually expand your internal sense of what is possible, regardless of seeming obstacles and challenges you go through.” – Veronica Smith, Loving Yourself
“A life filled with vicissitudes, uncertainty, and hard lessons provides us with skills to better approach new challenges that come along.” – Vivian Eisenecher, Recovering Me, Discovering Joy
“We must allow ourselves to be adorned by lessons derived through hardships and challenges.” – Tony Narams, Top Secret: You Can Fly Like An Eagle
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“It isn’t the challenge that defines you. It’s what you do with it.”― Sharon Pearson
“Part of the challenge that comes with striving for success is how the entire journey comes with its own fair share of failures and disappointments.” – Rupert Johnson, Build for Success
“I have also worked with leaders who have a positive outlook, and the morale is so different. Even when faced with challenges, the people looked for solutions.” – Byron and Catherine Pulsifer
“Expect obstacles and face them head-on. They are going to come up, so the way you handle them is what makes all the difference.” – Lance Dale, A Shot of Positivity: Overcoming Obstacles
“Challenges are an opportunity to test you and rise to the next level.” – Angelica Montrose, 7 Steps To Getting A Promotion
“Until you dare to take on new challenges you wouldn’t discover your full potential.”― Bernard Kelvin Clive
“The opportunity to develop resilience comes through difficult circumstances that both highlight and challenge existing mindsets.” – Devra Davis,
“What we choose to do on a daily basis prepares us for the greater things God has in store; those faith challenges that will take us into our promised land.” – Lisa Cook, 30 Days of Strength for a Woman’s Heart
“But that’s the challenge – to change the system more than it changes you.” – Michael Pollan
“If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?” – T.S. Eliot
“Face your challenges head-on rather than surrendering your dreams to fear.”― Frank Sonnenberg
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
“Always, always break through the challenges.”― Prof. Salam Al Shereida
