Challenges Quotes And Sayings

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“As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.”
– Chinese Proverb

“Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
– Joshua J. Marine

“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
– William Ellery Channing

“If you don’t try — then there is NO experience.”
– Nicholas Marchan

“Sometimes in life you have to let things just roll off of you … lest they make an ugly stain.”
– Unknown

“What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.”
– Alexander Graham Bell

“A woman is like a tea bag. She only knows her strength when put in hot water.”
– Nancy Reagan

“I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving; we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it … but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“When there is no wind … ROW!”
– Latin Proverb

“One of the best ways to get through difficulties is to simply persevere day by day. Huge projects don’t seem as daunting when we focus on one element … completing that before we tackle the next phase. As Napoleon Hill said, “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”
– Chelle Thompson

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
– Sigmund Freud

“Providence creates an unfolding situation that is exactly what the person needs, although not always what he may think he wants or desires. This is called luck by those who are unaware of the workings of higher Worlds. Providence also creates very difficult circumstances to reveal or dissolve a fixed situation … This is called bad luck or later, A Blessing in Disguise.”
– Warren Kenton

“I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.”
– Thomas Edison

“By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.”
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.”
– Albert Szent Gyorgi

“A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerate the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.”
– Billy Graham

“I am still learning — how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.”
– Audre Lorde

“Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.”
– Josh Billings

“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”
– Samuel Johnson

“The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two — common sense and perseverance.”
– Owen Feltham

“If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, “Here comes number seventy-one!”
– Richard M. Devos

“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins — not through strength but by perseverance.”
– H. Jackson Brown

“Never measure the height of a mountain until you reach the top. Then you will see how low it was.”
– Dag Hammerskjold

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