Challenge Quotes
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Facing a challenge, problem, obstacle or difficulty? If so, you’re in luck. These challenge quotes have the power to help you navigate troubled waters and find your way to clear sailing.
Sometimes facing challenges feels like you are literally drowning. As much as you feel the urge to panic, the thing most likely to save you is closing your eyes and relaxing into it. When you give up resisting, your body naturally floats. The one thing we know about life is – ‘stuff happens’. Challenge quotes will hopefully give you the inspiration you need to get through the crisis at hand. If you are fresh out of ideas for tackling your problems, you may also benefit from visiting our Creativity, Creative Process, or Imagination pages. Think of the challenge causing you the most distress and re-frame it as an opportunity. How might you benefit from this problem? What if this disaster was really a blessing? Write down all the ways that might happen. Pretend. Use your imagination. Think outside the box. Then sleep on it. You just might wake up with a million dollar idea!
Let me know what quotes worked best for you. I’d also like to know if you used any of the suggestions in this coaching session. To start a conversation, e-mail: Marta@joyofquotes.com
If all else fails, think of Joy of Quotes.com as a peaceful, positive island of inspiration and empowerment. Offering you encouraging words then you are face-to-face with a challenge is what we’re all about.
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Dr. Seuss
Your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome troubles.
Maya Angelou
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Carl Jung Tweet this Quote!
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Alfred A. Montapert Tweet this Quote!
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.
Shakti Gawain
You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
Jon Kabat-Zinn Tweet this Quote!
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire Tweet this Quote!
To accomplish much you must first lose everything.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara Tweet this Quote!
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
Pema Chödrön Tweet this Quote!
It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out, it's the pebble in your shoe.
Muhammad Ali Tweet this Quote!
Other people and things can stop you temporarily. You're the only one who can do it permanently.
Zig Ziglar
Concern should drive us into action, not into depression.
Karen Horney Tweet this Quote!
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
Maya Angelou
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buckminster Fuller
Even a small thorn causes pain.
Irish Proverb Tweet this Quote!
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably does not lead anywhere.
Frank A. Clark Tweet this Quote!
There’s no thrill in easy sailing when the skies are clear and blue. There’s no joy in merely doing things which anyone can do. But there is some satisfaction that is mighty sweet to take, when you reach a destination that you thought you’d never make.
Unknown
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey Tweet this Quote!
Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.
Roger Crawford Tweet this Quote!
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.
Stephen R. Covey
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill Tweet this Quote!
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