Facing Challenges Quotes:

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

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

- Moliere

topic: Motivational, Positive, Perseverance, Hurdling Obstacles, Strength In Adversity

To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

- Tony Dorsett

source: Tony Dorsett, Harvey Frommer (1989). “Running tough: memoirs of a football maverick”, Doubleday Books

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Sports Spirit, Professional Career

Today, 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.

topic: Change, Ideas, Challenges, Vigilant, Challenging Status Quo

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

- Wayne Dyer

source: FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 27, 2015

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Management Motivation, Spiritual Change

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

topic: Motivational, Stay Strong, Business, Inspiring Business, Daily Challenges

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Men, Trials, Inspirational Achievement, Inspirational Adversity

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

- Bette Davis

topic: Courage, Self Confidence, Keys, Daily Challenges, Life Challenges

Every artist was first an amateur.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Inspirational Art, Dilettantes

There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.

- William Halsey

topic: Bad Day, People, Challenges, Daily Challenges, Having A Bad Day

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Strength, Strength And Hope, Iron Lady

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Thought Of The Day, Try Again

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

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

- Mark Twain

topic: Mastery, Absence, Peaceful Warrior, Afraid Of Life, Inspirational Adversity

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

- Nadia Comaneci

source: Nadia Comaneci (2009). “Letters to a Young Gymnast”, p.50, Basic Books

topic: Motivational, Running, Athlete, Olympic Medals, Facing Challenges

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

- Helen Keller

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Courage, Soul Healing, Godlike

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

- David Lloyd George

source: "Design for Power : The Struggle for the World". Book by Frederick Lewis Schuman, 1941.

topic: Inspirational, Success, Two, Discovering Yourself, Innovation And Business

A feeling of confidence and personal power comes from facing challenges and overcoming them.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Challenges, Feelings, Overcoming, Personal Power, Facing Challenges

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

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

May you live all the days of your life.

- Jonathan Swift

topic: Inspirational, Birthday, Good Life, Source Of Life, Meaning Life

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

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

- Abigail Adams

topic: Character, Wish, Endurance, Inspirational Adversity, Facing Adversity

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

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Fear None, Afraid Of Life

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

- Andre Gide

source: "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Courage To Change, Times Have Changed

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

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

Courage is not the absence of fear

- Richard Stengel

topic: Absence, Peaceful Warrior, Afraid Of Life, Inspirational Courage, Inspirational Recovery

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

- James Neil Hollingworth

topic: Courage, Judgement, Absence, Peaceful Warrior, Afraid Of Life

At a time when the European project is facing challenges, it's especially important to show the benefits of economic integration by continuing to invest in our people and working to reduce inequality, both within and across our countries.

- Barack Obama

source: "Read President Obama's Comments Urging Donald Trump to Stand Up to Russia". time.com. November 17, 2016.

topic: Country, People, Challenges, Economic Integration, Facing Challenges

I guess what I'm trying to say is I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.

- Diane Frolov

topic: Mean, Thinking, Years, Taking Risks, Facing Challenges

To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Challenges, Intuition, Environmental, Facing Challenges, Communes