Quotes about Challenges
As long as you're in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot. And there
— Mark Twain
The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone knocked on the door.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
First, the line of progress is never straight. For a period a movement may follow a straight line and then it encounters obstacles and the path bends. It is like curving around a mountain when you are approaching a city. Often if feels as though you were moving backwards, and you lose sight of your goal: but in fact you are moving ahead, and soon you will see the city again, closer by.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
determination, enough courage and faith to meet the difficulties as they developed. When I hear, "People aren't ready," that's like telling a person who is trying
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can't stop a bird from landing on your head. But you can keep it from building a nest.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sufficient for to-morrow is the evil thereof; but I hope before the day is past to have the upper hand at last.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Each of us struggles daily with the pressures of conformity and the loneliness of difference from which those choices seem to offer escape.
— Audre Lorde