Challenges We Face Quotes:

I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way. The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Challenges, Soul, Growth, Challenges We Face

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. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Life, Change, Meaningful, Make The Right Choice, Courage To Change

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

topic: Giving Up, Goal, Challenges, Life Challenges, Difficult Challenges

Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.

- Sonia Gandhi

topic: Ocean, Sky, Challenges, Highness, Togetherness

I do believe that when we face challenges in life that are far beyond our own power, it's an opportunity to build on our faith, inner strength, and courage. I've learned that how we face challenges plays a big role in the outcome of them.

- Sasha Azevedo

topic: Believe, Opportunity, Play, Life Challenges, Challenges We Face

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Buddhist Monk, Meditation Mindfulness

Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want

- Randy Pausch

topic: Happiness, Success, Peace, Inspirational Hard Work, Motivational Work

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.

- Randy Pausch

source: YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Perseverance, Inspirational Hard Work, Last Lecture

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

topic: Moon, Challenges, Chill, Space Race, Space Travel

What makes life interesting are the challenges we face.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Interesting, Challenges, Faces, Challenges We Face

Dialogue is a space where we may see the assumptions which lay beneath the surface of our thoughts, assumptions which drive us, assumptions around which we build organizations, create economies, form nations and religions. These assumptions become habitual, mental habits that drive us, confuse us and prevent our responding intelligently to the challenges we face every day.

- David Bohm

topic: Organization, Space, Empathy, Challenges We Face

There is not enough time in the day to address all these challenges we face. I pray for wisdom in prioritizing issues and working on the things God would intend, so one day we too will hear those words: "Well done, my good and faithful servant."

- Steve Daines

source: Source: www.christianpost.com

topic: Faithful Servants, Issues, Challenges, I Pray, Not Enough Time

The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.

- Ken Robinson

source: Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.154, Penguin

topic: Children, Passion, Keys, Individual Talent, Challenges We Face

The challenges we face are never as important as the challenges we face up to.

- Ziggy Marley

topic: Challenges, Important, Faces, Challenges We Face

I may have absolutely no control over what happens to us, but we can control how we respond. If we choose the right attitude, we can rise above whatever challenges we face.

- Nick Vujicic

source: Nick Vujicic (2010). “Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life”, p.93, WaterBrook

topic: Attitude, Challenges, May, Challenges We Face

If the challenge we face doesn't scare us, then it's probably not that important.

- Tim Ferriss

topic: Fear, Challenges, Important, Challenges We Face

More than ever before in history, individuals can now band together to solve grand challenges. We face enormous problems, but we 'as individuals' have enormous power to solve them.

- Peter Diamandis

topic: Challenges, Together, Band, Challenges We Face

Armed violence and peace cannot coexist. We need to overcome the challenges we face and seek practical solutions. We must replace the culture of war with the culture of peace.

- Widad Akrawi

topic: War, Challenges, Culture, Challenges We Face

But no matter how big the effort to push a propaganda line might be, climate change is bigger. This, undoubtedly and regrettably, is the biggest immediate long-term environmental challenge we face. A failure to concretely come to some policy outcome on climate change has not only a negative environmental impact but also social and economic consequences for us.

- Peter Garrett

topic: Impact, Long, Effort, Challenges We Face, Environmental Challenges

Staying focused on a project or plan is one of the most difficult challenges we face. There is always the house to clean, calls to make, laundry to fold, deadlines to meet. Actually, there is only one thing that keeps us from our goals - lack of focus. And very often, lack of focus is caused by fear.

- Iyanla Vanzant

topic: Goal, Focus, House, Challenges We Face, Difficult Challenges

Nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face, so what they're going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know, he's not patriotic enough. He's got a funny name. You know, he doesn't look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills, you know. He's risky.

- Barack Obama

source: "Race Moves to Center Stage". www.washingtonpost.com. August 1, 2008.

topic: Real, Patriotic, Thinking, Challenges We Face, Funny Name

America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love.

- Barack Obama

source: Democratic Nomination Victory Speech, delivered 3 June 2008, Saint Paul, Minnesota

topic: Love, Country, Past, New Directions, New Energy

I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we face. I also wonder if perhaps the most lasting expression of one's humility lies in our ability to foster and mentor our children.

- Naveen Jain

topic: Daughter, Mother, Children, Challenges We Face

I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. For it's precisely the pursuit of ideological purity, the rigid orthodoxy and the sheer predictability of our current political debate, that keeps us from finding new ways to meet the challenges we face.

- Barack Obama

topic: Political, Dumb, Challenges, Challenges We Face, Predictability

Climate change...is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family.

- Ban Ki-moon

source: Ban Ki-moon's Remarks at 39th Plenary Assembly of the World Federation of United Nations Associations, www.un.org. August 10, 2009.

topic: Challenges, Climate, Faces, Challenges We Face, Human Family

Our province needs united leadership and shared purpose in tackling the challenges we face.

- Jim Prentice

topic: Leadership, Challenges, Needs, Challenges We Face

What I know for sure is that all the sacrifice and challenges we face are worth it if we're creating a better future for our kids. I just think if the adults are always thinking about the world we want to leave for our kids, we're going to make the right choices every single time.

- Michelle Obama

topic: Kids, Sacrifice, Thinking, Challenges We Face, Right Choices

An idea is only an idea if it causes unease, debate and reflection. By that standard, Thomas Homer-Dixon's concept of an 'ingenuity gap' is truly a new idea. I can think of no other new concept that so fully condenses all of the challenges we face as a human civilization than the 'ingenuity gap'. Homer-Dixon has found a way to unite all of our concerns about economics, war, population growth, complexity, etc. under a single heading. He is one of an elite group of academics who can write for a mass audience.

- Robert D. Kaplan

topic: War, Writing, Reflection, Challenges We Face, Human Civilization

Education affects every major challenge we face in society. It creates economic growth, paves the way for peace and stability and helps erase the legacy of marginalization.

- Shakira

source: Source: www.americasquarterly.org

topic: Challenges, Growth, Legacy, Marginalization, Challenges We Face

We've become so used to the concept as a measuring and sorting tool, that it and its correlates - below-average, above-average - are everyday speech. We don't even question the language, although the challenges we face require a different mindset.

- L. Todd Rose

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Average, Challenges, Everyday, Challenges We Face, Sorting

The ecological challenges we face are the result of billions of ecologically ignorant decisions made by billions of people over centuries. To address the climate crisis, we now need billions of people to make ecologically intelligent decisions.

- Allen Hershkowitz

topic: Intelligent, People, Decision, Ecological, Challenges We Face

We need a great president who can lead us through the great challenges we face.

- James Robison

source: Source: stream.org

topic: Challenges, President, Needs, Challenges We Face

Every time someone reads a story about the politics poisoning the global warming stuff it makes it feel like a political story, meaning it's Us and Them, instead of what it is: this profound challenge we face given our energy norms right now, the fuels of convenience toward something new. No matter what the politics are, it's still an enormous transformation that has to take place.

- Andrew Revkin

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Profound, Political, Challenges, Challenges We Face

Difficulties are not interruptions to our journey; they are part of it, as if they're part of the weave of the cloth of our lives. They weave in and become an essential part of the whole. Because the more challenges we face, the more capable we realize we are and the less there is to fear.

- Kimora Lee Simmons

topic: Journey, Challenges, Essentials, Challenges We Face

People divide into groups where they talk to each other, but don't talk across the divide. And yet most of the challenges we face in the world today are challenges that are to do with trade, with technology, with how you make sure that people are properly educated, reform your health care system.

- Tony Blair

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Technology, People, Challenges, Challenges We Face, Health Care System

I've met dedicated people from all sectors of society who are committed to giving children the tools they need for a better future. I'm always impressed by the passionate young leaders I meet. As the pace of change accelerates, so do the challenges we face. However, the chances to solve them increase too.

- Shakira

source: Source: www.americasquarterly.org

topic: Children, Giving, People, Challenges We Face, Pace Of Change

I'm very realistic about the challenges we face. OK? I have seen it up close in 2010. It's why I ran for the Senate five years ago. I have only been there five years, but it's been enough time to know the damage Barack Obama has done to this country.

- Marco Rubio

source: Source: www.cbsnews.com

topic: Country, Years, Challenges, Challenges We Face

The right way to proceed when we face the kind of challenges we face is to pursue the strategy which Ronald Reagan pursued when we faced the challenges of the last century.

- Mitt Romney

topic: Challenges, Way, Lasts, Challenges We Face

[Several candidates talked of problems with the federal Medicare system, particularly concerns about whether it would cover prescription drug costs in the future.] We're asking senior citizens to make a choice between their health and their income, ... Medicare is probably the most difficult challenge we face in the next century, because it has a lot to do with other things besides money.

- John McCain

topic: Senior, Choices, Challenges, Difficult Challenges, Challenges We Face

The United States is at a critical juncture in time. Our government is riddled with historic debt, and the limited resources of philanthropic and non-profit efforts cannot meet the scale of social challenges we face with necessary force.

- Simon Mainwaring

topic: Government, Effort, Challenges, Challenges We Face, Juncture

Perhaps because the challenges we face in our country are so daunting, we are also tempted by shortcuts. We tell ourselves that if we invent a new acronym, or write a new empowerment charter, we can avoid some of the back-breaking work that sustained progress requires

- Helen Zille

topic: Country, Writing, Challenges, Challenges We Face, Acronyms

When my parents were growing up the world's population was under three billion. During my children's lifetime, it is likely to exceed nine billion. You don't need to be an expert to realise that sustainable development is going to become the greatest challenge we face this century

- Tony Blair

topic: Children, Growing Up, Parent, Challenges We Face, Exceed

Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity... We all have to do our part to raise awareness about global warming and the problems we as a people face in promoting a sustainable environmental future for our planet.

- Leonardo DiCaprio

topic: Numbers, Issues, People, Challenges We Face, Environmental Challenges

Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced.

- Chris Hayes

topic: Thinking, Challenges, Climate, Challenges We Face

We still have a great amount of work to do in social development, including resolving one of the biggest challenges we face in this area, namely, reducing the gap between high-income earners and people, citizens of our country, who are still living on very modest means indeed. But we cannot, of course, adopt the solution used 80 years ago and simply confiscate the riches of some to redistribute among others. We will use completely different means to resolve this problem, namely, we will ensure good economic growth.

- Vladimir Putin

source: Transcript of Press Conference with the Russian and Foreign Media, en.kremlin.ru. February 01, 2007.

topic: Country, Mean, Years, Social Development, Economic Growth

If we are going to solve the challenges we face, you need a President who will pursue genuine solutions day in and day out. And that is my commitment to you. We need immigration reform that will secure our borders, and punish employers who exploit immigrant labor; reform that finally brings the 12 million people who are here illegally out of the shadows by requiring them to take steps to become legal citizens. We must assert our values and reconcile our principles as a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws. That is a priority I will pursue from my very first day.

- Barack Obama

topic: Commitment, Law, People, Challenges We Face, Immigration Reform

China has really succeeded because of its stability. So my feeling is, how they are going to maintain this fantastic stability in a very fast changing economic situation. I think this is a challenge we face, how the global region will evolve in stability with such a fast growth. If they succeed to do that, no doubt, in the next generation it will be the major area of the world, economically.

- Bernard Arnault

topic: Inspirational, Change, Success, Challenges We Face