Quotes about Challenges
The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises—it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.
— John F. Kennedy
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
— John F. Kennedy
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. [Quoting Reverend Phillips Brooks, during Remarks at Presidential Prayer Breakfast, February 7 1963]
— John F. Kennedy
You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.
— John Mayer
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.
— John Mayer
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
You just don't know in life. Life knocks you about and pushes you over boundaries. But be ready. Do your homework; that's all I can say.
— Julie Andrews
Ministry burnout is a real problem because it's never-ending.
— Tony Evans
German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.
— George Bernard Shaw
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life
— George Bernard Shaw
It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.
— George Eliot
People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.
— Tina Turner