Quotes about Challenges

Pragmatism allows a person to take things that others would consider problems or distractions and see them as opportunities.

Authors Carole Hyatt and Linda Gottlieb indicate that people who fail on the job commonly cite "office politics" as the reason for their failures, but the reality is that what they call politics is often nothing more than regular interaction with other people.

Have you ever had to communicate someone else's vision? It's very difficult to do, isn't it?

You know that your attitude capacity has increased when your attitude is remaining positive even as your difficulties rise.

Vision: How does this problem affect where we're trying to go? [Your Response Here] Priorities: Are my problems taking me or the team away from our priorities? [Your Response Here] Values: Are my values or my team's being compromised by this problem?

First speech? Frightened beyond belief. First board meeting? Scared stiff. I was never good the first time, and I was always scared on top of that.

I will never surrender to discouragement or despair no matter what seeming obstacles may confront me.

Don't change just enough to get away from your problems—change enough to solve them.

Learn to view your problems as temporary stumbling blocks.

It doesn't matter what job you do or what position you obtain; you will have limits. That's just the way life is.

Climbing to the higher levels of leadership isn't easy. It takes effort. It also requires sacrifices. You won't be able to win one level using the skills you used to win the last one. You'll have to give up some privileges and resources to move up. You'll have to give up doing some of the things you love that don't give a great enough return on your time. And some people you'd love to take with you to the top will refuse to go.

With hope, failure is a skipping stone. Without hope, failure is a tombstone.