100+ Difficult Challenges Quotes

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

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

- Randy Pausch

topic: Wall, Inspirational Life, People, Inspirational Hard Work, Cards You're Dealt

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, Pushing On, Solved Problems

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

- Frank A. Clark

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Hurdling Obstacles, Inspirational Adversity

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Success, Attitude, Life Opportunity, Encouraging Words

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

- Seneca the Younger

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Adversity, Obstacles And Challenges

When you face difficult times, know that challenges are not sent to destroy you. They're sent to promote, increase and strengthen you.

- Joel Osteen

source: Twitter post from Dec 20, 2011

topic: Stay Positive, Challenges, Faces, Difficult Challenges

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

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

- Robert Kennedy

source: Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

topic: Inspirational, Success, Failure, Journey To Success, Inspirational Achievement

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Encouragement, Good Life, Adversity, Difficult Challenges, Good Times Bad Times

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

- Gail Sheehy

topic: Life, Bad Day, Challenges, Having A Bad Day, Life Challenges

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

- Amelia Earhart

source: "On a wing and a prayer" by Maxie Szalwinska, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2007.

topic: Motivational, Women, Blessing, Inspirational Feminist, Strong Powerful Women

The process of life is ever unfolding, guiding you, pushing you, preparing you for the next part of the process. Difficult challenges, bad days, upset feelings, moments of confusion are part of life's process. Perhaps these things are there to keep us alert, to make us stronger, or to test our resolve to keep moving forward.

- Iyanla Vanzant

source: FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Aug 21, 2015

topic: Moving, Bad Day, Confusion, Difficult Challenges, Process Of Life

I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to constantly realize and reveal what's already been there - like doing stage and singing and dancing in New York. I haven't been that far out of my comfort zone in a while.

- Blair Underwood

topic: New York, Thinking, Dancing, Difficult Challenges, Singing And Dancing

The United States is doing our part by increasing the number of refugees we resettle and I want again to commend Angela [Merkel], and more importantly, the German people for the extraordinary leadership and compassion that you have shown in the face of what I know is a very difficult challenge.

- Barack Obama

source: Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

topic: Compassion, Numbers, People, Difficult Challenges, Angela

The most difficult challenge that Governments have faced since the dinosaurs roamed the earth.

- David Chaytor

topic: Government, Challenges, Earth, Difficult Challenges

I think probably the most difficult challenge was just the climb and rise in show business because I went through my entire twenties with some success as a comedy writer but not much as a performer. And you have to be kind of informed and naive at the same time.

- Steve Martin

topic: Thinking, Challenges, Twenties, Difficult Challenges

This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first.

- Iyanla Vanzant

topic: Children, Parenting, Challenges, Difficult Challenges

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

- Carol Moseley Braun

topic: Freedom, Challenges, Faces, Defining Myself, Difficult Challenges

With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible.

- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

topic: Opportunity, Florida, Land, Difficult Challenges

Life is not always easy. And that is a major reason why it is so precious. Many of life's best rewards are possible only because you must work your way through difficult challenges to get to them. If everything in life were easy, there would be no opportunity for real fulfillment.

- Ralph Marston

topic: Real, Opportunity, Challenges, Difficult 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

There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect.

- Martin Filler

topic: Challenges, Littles, Building, Difficult Challenges, Tall Buildings

People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.

- Atul Gawande

topic: Accomplishment, Expectations, People, Difficult Challenges, Great Accomplishment

Great coaches do not tell people what to think. They point people in the right direction to find the answers. This self-restraint is one of the most difficult challenges of leadership.

- Thomas G. Bandy

topic: Thinking, Self, People, Self Restraint, Difficult Challenges

Even as we do all that's necessary to ensure Israel's security, even as we are clear-eyed about the difficult challenges before us, and even as we pledge to stand by Israel through whatever tough days lie ahead, I hope we do not give up on that vision of peace. For if history teaches us anything, if the story of Israel teaches us anything, it is that with courage and resolve, progress is possible. Peace is possible.

- Barack Obama

source: Remarks by the President at the AIPAC Policy Conference at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 22, 2011.

topic: Giving Up, Lying, Israel, Difficult Challenges, Tough Day

Exposing their own humility and vulnerability is one of the most difficult challenges for white antiracist, even after achieving an autonomous white racial identity.

- Eileen O'Brien

source: Eileen O'Brien (2001). “Whites Confront Racism: Antiracists and their Paths to Action”, p.109, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

topic: Humility, White, Justice, Difficult Challenges, Racial Identity

It's easy to have a great attitude when things are going our way...It's when difficult challenges rise before us...that attitude becomes the difference maker.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Positive, Attitude, Differences, Difference Makers, Difficult Challenges

Fear-of not being loved, of abandonment, of being thought to be selfish-is the main thing that keeps us vulnerable and bound in the chains of emotional dependence. Therefore, our two most difficult challenges are to truly believe it is okay for us to be ourselves and to learn to live with, move through, and heal our fears.

- Sue Thoele

topic: Being Yourself, Selfish, Believe, Being Selfish, Difficult Challenges

In the past I faced assassination attempts. I faced harassment, intimidation and prison due to my bold stand on this issue. But these difficult challenges strengthened my faith; strengthened my belief; and strengthened my commitment and devotion to this cause.