Inspiring Quotes to Overcome Life's Challenges

"No matter what kind of challenges or difficulties or painful situations you go through in your life, we all have something deep within us that we can reach down and find the inner strength to get through them."

- Alana Stewart

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."

- Winston Churchill

"Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going."

- Chantal Sutherland

"You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it's important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages."

- Michelle Obama

"I just want to share with everyone that no matter what challenges, adversities you face in life, that you can overcome them... and once you overcome those adversities, use your story, your testimony to others, to help others get through their storm."

- Wayne Messam

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

- Winston Churchill

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise."

- Kobe Bryant

"If I could talk to my younger self, I would just say that the path to great things is filled with a lot of stumbles, suffering, and challenges along the way. But if you have the right attitude and know that hard times will pass - and you get up each time - you will reach your destination."

- Jonny Kim

"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory."

- George S. Patton

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

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

"Focus on what lights a fire inside of you and use that passion to fill a white space. Don't be afraid of the challenges, the missteps, and the setbacks along the way. What matters is that you keep going."

- Kendra Scott

"We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges."

- Barack Obama

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself."

- Seneca

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

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges."

- Joyce Meyer

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

"Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew."

- Cicely Tyson

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently."

- Maya Angelou

"Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my life was the day I realized that I no longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That’s enormously liberating and freeing, and it’s the only way to live your life and do your business."

- Cindy Gallop

"People are at their best when they are challenged. If we don't challenge ourselves, nature has a way of giving us challenges anyway. There is great value in our struggles, and human nature has shown us that we only value the things we struggle to achieve."

- Thomas Frey

"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

"Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life."

- Joni Eareckson Tada

"Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky."

- Sonia Gandhi

"The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t win’ is you, and you don’t have to listen."

- Jessica Ennis

"If you don't learn constantly, you don't grow, and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder as you get older, but new experiences and new challenges keep it fresh."

- Iris Apfel

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks."

- Daniel Kahneman

"You just keep a positive attitude no matter what comes in your way - challenges, roadblocks - don't let it faze you, and you can overcome anything."

- Rose Namajunas

"There will always be obstacles and challenges that stand in your way. Building mental strength will help you develop resilience to those potential hazards so you can continue on your journey to success."

- Amy Morin

"Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character."

- Les Brown

"Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them."

- John C. Maxwell

"It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself."

- Muhammad Ali

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."

- Alice Walker

"Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."

- Neil Gaiman

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

"It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get up."

- Vince Lombardi

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

- Dale Carnegie

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

- Helen Keller

"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

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

"There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one."

- Mia Hamm

"Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us."

- Russell M. Nelson

"If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse."

- Jim Rohn

"The biggest lessons I learned were probably the times where I had the biggest setbacks and the biggest challenges - when I had the biggest jumps forward and lessons learned."

- Michelle Kwan

"If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges."

- Pat Riley

"I think that life is difficult. People have challenges. Family members get sick, people get older, you don't always get the job or the promotion that you want. You have conflicts in your life. And really, life is about your resilience and your ability to go through your life and all of the ups and downs with a positive attitude."

- Jennifer Hyman

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

"We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes—understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."

- Ariana Huffington

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"The future depends on what you do today."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me."

- Jay-Z

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Henry Ford

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane von Furstenberg

"We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Oprah Winfrey

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

"It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that things are difficult."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough."

- Donald Trump

"I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream."

- Neil Armstrong

"Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent."

- David Rockwell

"Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them."

- Sean Combs

"You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That's how you know you're still alive."

- Jerry Seinfeld

"Our shared values define us more than our differences. And acknowledging those shared values can see us through our challenges today if we have the wisdom to trust in them again."

- John McCain

"I believe that every single one of us, celebrity or not, has a responsibility to get involved in trying to make a difference in the world. Our generation faces many challenges, some of which were passed on to us by the past generations, but it's up to us to find solutions today so that we don't keep passing our problems on."

- Shakira

"We in the U.A.E. have no such word as 'impossible'; it does not exist in our lexicon. Such a word is used by the lazy and the weak, who fear challenges and progress."

- Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

"Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life."

- Marilu Henner

"For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own."

- Joe Biden

"One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things."

- Ban Ki-moon

"I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges."

- Harrison Ford

"Americans deserve a president who confronts the daily challenges facing working people with the same determination and steady leadership they apply to addressing the most serious crises facing our nation."

- Kamala Harris

"We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges."

- Tim Berners-Lee

"What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats."

- Paulo Coelho

"The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art."

- John Lasseter

"Every project has challenges, and every project has its rewards."

- Stephen Schwartz

"By shifting your focus to the princess and treating your life's challenges like video games, you can trick your brain and actually learn more and see more success."

- Mark Rober

"Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure."

- Parker Palmer

"If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t, you will see obstacles."

- Wayne Dyer

"The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying."

- John C. Maxwell

"Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."

- Charlie Jones

"A setback has often cleared the way for more prosperity. Many things have fallen only to rise to more exalted heights."

- Seneca

"Don’t blame your challenge, rather get up and see it as a bridge to your success."

- Bruce Mbanzabugabo

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."

- William James

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

- Henry Ford

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."

- Dale Carnegie

"Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."

- Erica Jong

"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway."

- Earl Nightingale

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

- Dolly Parton

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

- Jane Goodall

"I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger."

- Mia Hamm

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible."

- Charles Kingsleigh

"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."

- Wayne Dyer

"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for."

- Jennifer Lopez

"The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development."

- Robin Sharma

"Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way."

- Vera Wang

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it."

- Charles R. Swindoll

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

"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

"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know."

- Pema Chodron

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

- Arthur Ashe

"You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read."

- Cesar Chavez

"You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe."

- Leymah Gbowee

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them."

- Shonda Rhimes

"You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do."

- Dr. Seuss

"That is the most fun part of skateboarding, the challenges. There are always new possibilities."

- Nyjah Huston

"Life is short, and nobody knows what's around the corner, but I'm up for lots of new challenges."

- Ashley Roberts

"Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges."

- Anna Lindh

"When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Feeding the world will be one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. It will be impossible without using scientific advancements and biotechnology."

- Mike Pompeo

"There is strength in numbers, but organizing those numbers is one of the great challenges."

- John C. Mather

"If you’re going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

"Discomfort may be a doorway; don’t run from it."

- Joseph Deitch

"The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective behavior. But to realize this promise, the social sciences, like the natural sciences, need to match their institutional structures to today's intellectual challenges."

- Nicholas A. Christakis

"Life is full of challenges, but I always have the Three Ps: Passion, patience and persistence. And the fourth one is pizza."

- Butch Hartman

"I'm not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I'm not going to back down."

- Drake

"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."

- Zig Ziglar

"Hurricane Katrina this past week was certainly the worst episode in what has become an all-too-familiar and tragic cycle, and our nation is now faced with a set of unprecedented challenges."

- Jo Bonner

"The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why."

- Mark Twain

"You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches."

- Dita Von Teese

"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel."

- Steve Furtick

"No single solution or actor can deal with the complex and interrelated challenges to electoral integrity arising from manipulated data, hate speech, and fake news. These phenomena are not new; they have been part of electoral cycles since the advent of democracy."

- Kofi Annan

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

- Walt Disney

"It is only when we take chances that our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk we need to take is to become honest."

- Walter Anderson

"Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open."

- James Broughton

"We are dealing with the greater challenges of globalisation. It is generating, in many cases, an increase in the levels of inequality in societies... that is undesirable."

- Jose Angel Gurria

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

- Will Rogers

"Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better."

"you're bound to encounter challenges along the way. But those challenges could be a gateway to growth and new opportunities."

"You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character."