Quotes about Challenges

If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being free from flatterers.

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.