What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is.
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
All the poems have wolves in them. All but one. The most beautiful one of all. She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.
The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.
I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.
Everything is hard before it is easy.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
I don’t just try to score. The challenge is elevating my teammates to be able to win a championship.
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
Never back down from a real challenge. They give the best lessons in life.
Every change is a challenge to become who we really are.
The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul’s growth.
It’s the lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
There’s nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up.
I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other virtues I might never have known.
The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.