Quotes about Challenges

Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.

The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.

All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.

Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries tliem.

I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. This seemed simple and very nice; but I found when I tried to put it in practice not only that other people were seldom lovable, but that I was not very lovable myself.

It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from.

People will try to pull you down, but you need to fight the negativity in your life. It's always good to stay positive and think positive.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

I think any teenager, any single parent household teenager growing up in New York City, will probably go through tumultuous years. I definitely did. It all sort of righted itself once I definitively got on the path of being a musician or, like, following that directly.