Quotes about Challenges

Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don't know whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or on a peak until you're coming down. And that's it you know, you never know what's round the corner. But it's all good. "If you want the rainbow, you've gotta put up with the rain." Do you know which "philosopher" said that? Dolly Parton. And people say she's just a big pair of tits.

If you can laugh in the face of adversity, you're bullet-proof.

It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes.

To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question."

Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, "Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties."

The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it.

When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.

Life pushes all of us around. Some people give up and others fight. A few learn the lesson and move on. They welcome life pushing them around. To these few people it means they need and want to learn something.

Life is the best teacher of all. Most of the time, life does not talk to you. It just sort of pushes you around. Each push is life saying, 'Wake up'. There is something I want you to learn.

Red hair is my life long sorrow.

It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that 'this, too, will pass away.

I heard someone once say that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.