Richard Bach Quotes

Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.

With training and self discipline; clear focus and confidence; problems can be overcome and even lead to unexpected gains

Most of the time you need something to fight against. If something is bothering me, then the only way to get past it is to work through it.

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.

It takes facing obstacles to grow strong enough to overcome them.

I had to play the cards that I was dealt to get better mentally, physically, and push myself to limits that I didn't think I was capable of.

If you did not face problems you would just drift through life. It is through solving problems in accordance with the highest light we have that inner growth is attained.

What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended.

Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. They realized that they couldn't determine every circumstance in life but they could determine their choice of attitude towards every circumstance.

When we face the worst that can happen in any situation, we grow. When circumstances are at their worst, we can find our best.

Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit. But it's what you do at that moment that determines who you are.

I understand that suffering, when it cannot be avoided, is here to help me on my way to my dreams

If someone is trying to stop you from enjoying your life by impeding on yours, and telling you that your life is not the right way, then by all means, I'm the first one to say, "Fight for your rights, fight for who you are and for what you believe in." But you better be the stronger person. Just be aware and attentive to everything that's happening in life and know that there are gonna be people that are going to stop you and going to enjoy stopping you from getting to your goals. But just continue to be strong and outwit them.

Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.

But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.

We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.

You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.

When I hit bottom, I can attack the problem and get to where I want to be.

Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level.

The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.

Everyone is going to face challenges. What defines you is how you overcome those.

Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.