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Overcoming Challenges Quote by George S. Patton

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

George S. Patton

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Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter.

Dan Reeves

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Amos Bronson Alcott

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Paulo Coelho

When life gets harder, challenge yourself to be stronger.

Unknown

You don’t have to be a victim of your circumstances. You can overcome any challenge by taking action.

Unknown

It’s not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits.

Unknown

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it.

Ray A. Davis

The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.

Unknown

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Marcus Aurelius

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Robert H. Schuller

The greater the storm, the brighter the rainbow.

Unknown

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Thomas Paine

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Henry Ford

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

Jean de La Bruyère

Action is the antidote to despair.

Joan Baez

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in.

Haruki Murakami

The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn’t go our way.

Gregg Popovich

The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.

Aaron Lauritsen

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Edwin Louis Cole

Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re going to fail at everything.

Marilyn Monroe

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Babe Ruth

Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Booker T. Washington

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Napoleon Hill

Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’

Audrey Hepburn

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Seneca

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

George S. Patton

The only way to deal with challenges is to face them head-on.

Unknown

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.

Randy Pausch

Don’t give up. Don’t lose hope. Don’t sell out.

Christopher Reeve

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Joshua J. Marine

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Molière

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Arthur Ashe

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’

Mary Anne Radmacher

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Orison Swett Marden

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Helen Keller

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Og Mandino

The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.

Les Brown

The best view comes after the hardest climb.

Unknown

We don’t grow when things are easy, we grow when we face challenges.

Unknown

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert F. Kennedy

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.

Epicurus

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

Christian D. Larson

Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.

Roy T. Bennett

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Aristotle

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.

Maya Angelou

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.

Walter Elliot

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Henry Ford

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

William Arthur Ward

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Epictetus

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Nelson Mandela

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them.

Oprah Winfrey

Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.

Rikki Rogers

Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever.

Joel Osteen

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

J.K. Rowling

Strength doesn’t come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Mahatma Gandhi

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

Robert H. Schuller

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.

Jodi Picoult

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

Duke Ellington

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Oprah Winfrey

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

Oprah Winfrey

Strength grows in the moments when you think you can’t go on but you keep going anyway.

Unknown

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Helen Keller

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Nelson Mandela

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.

Conrad Hilton

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Edmund Hillary

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.

Jordan Belfort

Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter, or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.

Bryant McGill

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

Kenji Miyazawa

Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.

Orison Swett Marden

It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.

Vince Lombardi

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Theodore Roosevelt

The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow.

Unknown

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

Bruce Lee

Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life.

Unknown

Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.

Will Rogers

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Zig Ziglar

Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Joshua J. Marine