There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it. — Unknown
Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times. — Jack Gantos
Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not tested during the best of times. — Thabo Mbeki
Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now. — Iyanla Vanzant
Hard times always lead to something great. — Betsey Johnson
Difficult times you may face. Tough times you may encounter. But, dream you must. Dreams are the gap between where you are and where you will be. — Mahatria Ra
Life is never completely without its challenges. — Stan Lee
Short Challenging Times Quotes
Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional. — Roger Crawford
In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements. — Mao Zedong
We need tough days to drive us to our knees. — Unknown
Challenges ONLY make you STRONGER!!! — Jon Gordon
Tough times never last, but tough people do. — Robert H. Schuller
In tough times, that’s when you see true colours and personality. — Didier Deschamps
Life is full of challenges and surprises. — Jil Sander
Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them. — Meher Baba
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. — Barbara De Angelis
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us — Voltaire
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it. — Michael Jordan
How can we get what we really want and at the same time deal with the needs of others in our lives? Perhaps no human dilemma is more pervasive or challenging. — William Ury
Coming from losing my dream of playing professional football, not having a college degree at the time, and looking to jump into the business world at a young age was pretty daunting for me. — Lewis Howes
I tried calorie restriction and couldn't do it. It's really hard to be hungry all the time. — David Sinclair
If you take each challenge one step at a time, with faith in every footstep, your strength and understanding will increase. — James E. Faust
Challenging Times Image Quotes
One day, you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the thing you've always wanted. Do it now.
Getting Through Challenging Times Quotes
I get clarity through quiet time, reflection, reading, and meditation. Finding the space between thoughts gives me the energy to take on new challenges with enthusiasm. — Jaime Murray
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. — Michael Jordan
My secret to survival has been embracing life's challenges and not letting them dictate my frame of mind or determine my fate... Learning to stand strong in the face of challenge and adversity is the only way to get through the tough times. — Sandra Lee
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.
I also think there is a wisdom and strength in that generation [of our parents], in terms of getting through difficult times, and there is a stoicism in the face of challenges that I greatly admire. — James Redford
My path has not been smooth. But the great thing about getting to be an elder is that you can look back and see the intense times of confusion and challenge, and see that if you keep walking through them, they can lead to times of great satisfaction and reward. — Frances Moore Lappé
I've experienced every aspect of pitching. I know the reality of what these guys are going through. You can be going good, and the game is going to humble you. But the challenge is how to get through the difficult times. — Roger McDowell
During Challenging Times Quotes
During challenging times and when impassioned to act, human beings can be capable of miracles. — Fabien Cousteau
During these continued tough economic times, writing a sensible, fair budget that provides real opportunities for Washington families, workers and businesses is always a challenge. — Jeanne Kohl-Welles
Ronald Reagan was an excellent leader of our nation during challenging times at home and abroad. — Gerald R. Ford
Every time you judge someone else, you reveal an unhealed part of yourself.
The mission of Tom Peterson and Catholics Come Home to bring souls home to Jesus and the church is critically important during this challenging time in our history. I fully support this New Evangelization project. — Rick Warren
During times of challenge, what you have faith in is what determines what the challenge will turn into. Have faith in the reality of the challenge, and it will birth more challenges. Have faith in the reality of miracles, and the challenge will transform into something else. — Marianne Williamson
Inspirational Quotes
Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there. — David Bowie
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho
Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle
Positive Quotes
I learned that everybody is not your friend. You have to watch who you associate with and surround yourself with positive things and people who want to do something positive. — Gucci Mane
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively. — Bob Marley
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. — Booker T. Washington
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs
When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray. — Rumi
If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Challenging Times At Work Quotes
Keep calm and carry on. A challenging time is just that - a period in time. Taking a few deep breaths and knowing that it won't last forever really allows me to focus on the present moment and task at hand. — Elizabeth Armstrong
Many women assume they can't be good mothers and have challenging careers at the same time, so they might give up trying to do both as they get to a crucial point in their career. Although it can be hard at times, it's important for women to recognize the benefits of working outside the home. — Susan Wojcicki
My time at Wofford was very dear to me. I chose to go there because the academics were so strong. I could have gone somewhere a little more local, but I wanted the academic challenges Wofford had to offer. It worked out pretty well for me obviously. — Brenda Jackson
These are challenging times at home and around the world. We will have to work together in a bipartisan spirit and with our international partners if we are going to achieve progress and peace now and for future generations. — Susan Collins
At a time when the European project is facing challenges, it's especially important to show the benefits of economic integration by continuing to invest in our people and working to reduce inequality, both within and across our countries. — Barack Obama
We all want the chance to express the very best of ourselves and to be challenged to keep reaching for more. Our time at work affords us this chance - not the only chance, to be sure, but, given that we're there forty or fifty hours a week, it's one of the best. — Marcus Buckingham
When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think of that work as love in action. While it may challenge, disturb and at times even frighten or enrage readers, love is always the place where I begin and end. — Bell Hooks
Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm frustrated I put one down and begin another. — Robert Bateman
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy. — Saadi Shirazi
Difficult times don't come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you. — Joel Osteen
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. — Mother Teresa
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. — Maya Angelou
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one — Bruce Lee
It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form. — Hart Crane
Woe to the people that fails to honor its heroes! It will cease producing them, cease knowing them. Heroes spring from the essence of their people. A people without heroes is a people without leaders, for only a heroic leader is a true leader able to withstand the challenge of difficult times. — Rudolf Hess
Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them — Rita Levi-Montalcini
The way I think I should stay out of trouble is by stayin' busy. With idle time comes a lot of biz, so the more my work load is heavy, I'll have no time to get into any trouble or makin' dis tracks or get into conversation about any other rappers. — Gucci Mane
Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble. — John Barrymore
There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there. — Paulo Coelho
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. — Leonardo da Vinci
The sons of Adam are limbs of each other, Having been created of one essence. When the calamity of time affects one limb, the other limbs cannot remain at rest. If you have no sympathy for the troubles of others, You are unworthy to be called by the name of a human. — Saadi Shirazi
Perhaps love is like a resting place, a shelter from the storm. It exists to give you comfort, it is there to keep you warm, and in those times of trouble when you are most alone, the memory of love will bring you home. — John Denver
Forget the times of trouble, but not the truths they taught. Forget the days of sorrow, but not the strength they brought. Forget the storms you battled through beneath a heavy load - but not the light that led you safely down the unknown road. — Patience Strong
You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social issues — C. Wright Mills
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time. — Willem de Kooning
Uncertain Times Quotes
Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule. — Milarepa
The future is uncertain but the end is always near. — Jim Morrison
At quite uncertain times and places,
The atoms left their heavenly path,
And by fortuitous embraces,
Engendered all that being hath.
And though they seem to cling together,
And form 'associations' here,
Yet, soon or late, they burst their tether,
And through the depths of space career. — James Clerk Maxwell
The time of death is uncertain, but death is certain. — Duncan Trussell
In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse. — Robert Fripp
The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity. — Ilya Prigogine
In these uncertain times, I know 100 percent that I can stake my life on the unshakeable, unchanging promises of God! — Sheila Walsh
We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. Immediately we abandon to God, and do the duty that lies nearest, and He packs our life with surprises all the time.... Leave the whole thing to Him, it is gloriously uncertain how He will come in, but He will come. — Oswald Chambers
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. — Arthur Schopenhauer
An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity. — Alberto Moravia
Tough Times Quotes
Holding on to hope when everything is dark, is the greatest test of faith — Yasmin Mogahed
Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light. — Rabindranath Tagore
Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't. — Bill Hybels
You may be in a tough time but that setback is simply a setup for a greater comeback. — Joel Osteen
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. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people. — Randy Pausch
Behind the cloud the sun is still shining. — Abraham Lincoln
If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it — Mary Engelbreit
You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes. — Eckhart Tolle
Tough times go away, tough people do not. — Walter Payton
When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent. — RuPaul
Turbulent Times Quotes
The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic. — Peter Drucker
A lot of my work has been about the unexpected—that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time. That kind of dilemma—that push and pull—is the underlying turbulence that I bring to each of the pieces that I make. — Kara Walker
Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated for the sake of learning and growth. — Haim Ginott
In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power. — John F. Kennedy
If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force. — Sri Aurobindo
Because personal revelation is a constantly renewable source of strength, it is possible to feel bathed in help even during turbulent times. — Julie B. Beck
Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.' It's the rought waters that train us to e His disciples. He uses the turbulent times I our lives to prepare us for His purposes-if we'll let Him. — Lynn Austin
Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time. — Dean Koontz
Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors. — Lynn Austin
In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience. — John Naisbitt
To be very honest, I cannot drape a saree myself. I have never draped one on my own, ever. But it has been done on me so many times, that now I have memorised all the steps, and if someone challenges me, I will surely be able to do it. — Sonakshi Sinha
You need to associate with people who inspire you,
people that challenge you to raise higher,
people that make you better.
Don't waste your valuable time with people that are not adding to your growth.
Your destiny is too important. — Joel Osteen
People may call what happens at midlife 'a crisis,' but it's not. It's an unraveling - a time when you feel a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you're 'supposed' to live. The unraveling is a time when you are challenged by the universe to let go of who you think you are supposed to be and to embrace who you are. — Brené Brown
Don't waste your time consuming what makes you weak. Spend your time pressing in for the Presence. Become so intimate with Jesus, so full of Him, that it does not matter what challenges in life present themselves to you. You will be so spiritually full that you can feed a multitude of other people's needs. Jesus will give you more than enough. — Heidi Baker
When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions. — Steve Jobs
The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break. — Rick Hansen
I have been seriously afraid at times but have used my fear as a stimulating factor rather than allowing it to paralyse me. My abilities have not been outstanding, but I have had sufficient strength and determination to meet my challenges and have usually managed to succeed with them. — Edmund Hillary
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. — Haruki Murakami
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. — Leo Buscaglia
The building of the village was not yet complete, and the beggars arrived! — Greek Proverbs
It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it. — Vince Lombardi
The way you react has been repeated thousands of times, and it has become a routine for you. You are conditioned to be a certain way. And that is the challenge: to change your normal reactions, to change your routine, to take a risk and make different choices. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't. — Thomas A. Edison
The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people! — Randy Pausch
If you want to depict something exactly the way it is, it takes a tremendous amount of time. — Akira Toriyama
You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. — Joseph E. Levine
I think the challenge is to takedifficult and painful times and turn them into something beneficial, something that makes you grow. — Michelle Akers
Working through physical challenges that would put others on the bench just so you can taste the sweetness of winning one more time — that is what separates the good and great from the unstoppable. — Tim Grover
Put your leaders in stressful scenarios. Make them figure out solutions under pressure. See if you can make them frustrated, angry, and flustered, and then demand decisive leadership from them. They will be challenged at first, but they will get better over time. — Jocko Willink
Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply. — Martha Reeves
We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions...this especially applies to what we used to call bad things...the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative. — James Redfield
Take life one day at a time because every day is a different day with new challenges. — Penny Streeter
The joy in motherhood comes in moments. There will be hard times and frustrating times, but amid the challenges there are shining moments of joy and satisfaction. — M. Russell Ballard
Pennsylvania is facing challenging economic times, a multi-billion dollar budget deficit, and negative cash flow projections. My Budget Deficit and Fiscal Stabilization Task Force will get to work to determine the scope of the challenges facing Pennsylvania and begin to discuss how we can get Pennsylvania's fiscal house in order. — Tom Wolf
Problems form an important part of our lives. They are placed in our path for us to overcome them, not to be overcome by them. We must master them, not let them master us. Every time we overcome a challenge, we grow in experience, in self assuredness, and in faith. — Royden G. Derrick
You win a race, the next race it’s a question mark. Are you still the best or not? That’s what is funny. But that’s what is interesting. And that’s what is challenging. You have to prove yourself every time. — Michael Schumacher
I love challenges. If you don't have any and can do whatever you want, then it's probably time to die. — Jean-Claude Van Damme
Never give up: There are certain times that you think, 'OK, you have beaten me down to my knees. And now the challenge is, I am on my knees and you keep on beating me down. And the question is, are you going to keep beating me all the way to the ground or will I find a way to struggle my way back on to my feet.' — Randy Pausch
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