This is a compilation of thoughts and quotes that I have found or written recently, as well as many that I've collected throughout the years. Most thoughts are posted randomly, as I feel inspired. A listing of quotes can be found alphabetically (check the 2008 and 2009 archives listing), or by source.

Feel free to suggest additions!


“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” – Proverbs 23:7

Friday, December 12, 2008

Challenges Quotes

1. Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. - African Proverb

2. The difficult we do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer. – Unknown

3. In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. It’s not what happens to us, but how we meet it that spells the difference. - Unknown

5. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Martin Luther King

6. Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve. - Leonardo da Vinci

7. When some people stumble over a block, they lie prone, while others rise, and use it as a stepping stone. - Unknown

8. Welcome the call that makes you go beyond yourself. - Unknown

9. The storms in life are inevitable and yet their passing often reveals the beauty of the day. - Unknown

10. One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. - Andre Gide

11. Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. - Helen Keller

12. A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. - John A. Shedd

13. What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him. – Unknown

14. If you run from the challenges, they will chase you ever faster. Yet when you run toward those same challenges, you'll be running toward true achievement. For those challenges are not there to stop you. They're there to make you stronger. - Kay Stott

15. I know that God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that he didn't trust me so much. - Mother Teresa

16. Energy and persistence conquer all things. - Benjamin Franklin

17. Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. - Samuel Lover

18. I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down. - Michel de Montaigne

19. Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars. - Brian Tracy

20. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. - Seneca the Younger

21. There are acres of diamonds in the problem you have before you right now. - Brian Tracy

22. We are made strong by the difficulties we face, not by those we evade. - Unknown

23. Many of our fears are tissue-paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us through them. - Brendan Francis

24. Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars. - Brian Tracy

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