Difficult Challenges Quotes - Page 2

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

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

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• To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

  Gail Sheehy

  Life, Bad Day, Challenges

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• The process of life is ever unfolding, guiding you, pushing you, preparing you for the next part of the process. Difficult challenges, bad days, upset feelings, moments of confusion are part of life's process. Perhaps these things are there to keep us alert, to make us stronger, or to test our resolve to keep moving forward.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Moving, Bad Day, Confusion

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Aug 21, 2015

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• I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to constantly realize and reveal what's already been there - like doing stage and singing and dancing in New York. I haven't been that far out of my comfort zone in a while.

  Blair Underwood

  New York, Business, Thinking

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• The United States is doing our part by increasing the number of refugees we resettle and I want again to commend Angela [Merkel], and more importantly, the German people for the extraordinary leadership and compassion that you have shown in the face of what I know is a very difficult challenge.

  Barack Obama

  Compassion, Numbers, People

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• I think probably the most difficult challenge was just the climb and rise in show business because I went through my entire twenties with some success as a comedy writer but not much as a performer. And you have to be kind of informed and naive at the same time.

  Steve Martin

  Thinking, Challenges, Twenties

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• The most difficult challenge that Governments have faced since the dinosaurs roamed the earth.

  David Chaytor

  Government, Challenges, Earth

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• Staying focused on a project or plan is one of the most difficult challenges we face. There is always the house to clean, calls to make, laundry to fold, deadlines to meet. Actually, there is only one thing that keeps us from our goals - lack of focus. And very often, lack of focus is caused by fear.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Goal, Focus, House

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Jan 04, 2014

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• Great coaches do not tell people what to think. They point people in the right direction to find the answers. This self-restraint is one of the most difficult challenges of leadership.

  Thomas G. Bandy

  Thinking, Self, People

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• Life is not always easy. And that is a major reason why it is so precious. Many of life's best rewards are possible only because you must work your way through difficult challenges to get to them. If everything in life were easy, there would be no opportunity for real fulfillment.

  Ralph Marston

  Real, Opportunity, Challenges

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• Exposing their own humility and vulnerability is one of the most difficult challenges for white antiracist, even after achieving an autonomous white racial identity.

  Eileen O'Brien

  Humility, White, Justice

  Eileen O'Brien (2001). “Whites Confront Racism: Antiracists and their Paths to Action”, p.109, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect.

  Martin Filler

  Challenges, Littles, Building

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• People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.

  Atul Gawande

  People, Accomplishment, Expectations

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• With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Opportunity, Florida, Land

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• It's easy to have a great attitude when things are going our way...It's when difficult challenges rise before us...that attitude becomes the difference maker.

  John C. Maxwell

  Positive, Attitude, Differences

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• Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Inspiring, Being Yourself, Freedom

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• This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Children, Parenting, Challenges

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• Even as we do all that's necessary to ensure Israel's security, even as we are clear-eyed about the difficult challenges before us, and even as we pledge to stand by Israel through whatever tough days lie ahead, I hope we do not give up on that vision of peace. For if history teaches us anything, if the story of Israel teaches us anything, it is that with courage and resolve, progress is possible. Peace is possible.

  Barack Obama

  Giving Up, Lying, Israel

  Remarks by the President at the AIPAC Policy Conference at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 22, 2011.

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• The heart of grief, its most difficult challenge, is not "letting go" of those who have died but instead making the transition from loving in presence to loving in separation.

  Thomas Attig

  Letting Go, Grief, Heart

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• Accepting your teen's individuality and natural evolution is one of the most difficult challenges you'll face as a parent.

  Wendy Mogel

  Parent, Challenges, Individuality

  Wendy Mogel (2011). “The Blessing of a B Minus: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Resilient Teenagers”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• [Several candidates talked of problems with the federal Medicare system, particularly concerns about whether it would cover prescription drug costs in the future.] We're asking senior citizens to make a choice between their health and their income, ... Medicare is probably the most difficult challenge we face in the next century, because it has a lot to do with other things besides money.

  John McCain

  Senior, Choices, Challenges

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• You can take your fitness seriously, but not yourself. That's the most difficult part: not to relax. That's the most difficult challenge I'm facing every fight.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Fighting, Challenges, Relax

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• A writer who wants to be translated and published abroad faces a very difficult challenge: first of all, he must make sure that his book is cosmopolitan in the best sense of the word, that it is interesting to a global audience. Nobody is going to read about problems that they don’t care about.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Book, Interesting, Challenges

  "Interview with a Vampire Writer". Interview with Tatyana Shenkova, www.rbth.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Fear-of not being loved, of abandonment, of being thought to be selfish-is the main thing that keeps us vulnerable and bound in the chains of emotional dependence. Therefore, our two most difficult challenges are to truly believe it is okay for us to be ourselves and to learn to live with, move through, and heal our fears.

  Sue Thoele

  Being Yourself, Selfish, Believe

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• Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Powerful, Challenges, Identity

  Feisal Abdul Rauf (2012). “Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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