Quotes about Challenge

Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.

There are two kinds of suffering in this life. That which pursues us and that which we doggedly pursue.

You may feel singled out when adversity enters your life. You shake your head and wonder, 'Why me?'

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people. As you overcome adversity in your life, you will become stronger.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won't.

Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?

You can't fight a battle you don't think exists.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

It's one thing to have a goal, but it's quite another thing to actually accept the challenge, develop a strategy to press for the goal, make the sacrifices, pay the price to move forward, and blessing of blessing, to realize some part of it.

My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.