Denise Austin Quotes

Life is a challenge, we must take it.

It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.

Accomplishment comes from making positive efforts, even in the face of negative circumstances.

Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist.

Sometimes, challenges and struggles are exactly what we need in our lives...May you welcome every effort, every struggle, and every challenge...May you open your wings and fly!

My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.

I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

Life always has a bit of a challenge in front of you, and that's what makes you fight for it.

The path of least resistance will never make you proud.

I've always been stimulated by the sense of challenge.

Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk.

The bigger the challenge, the bigger the sense of accomplishment when you get to the end of it.

The right way is the hard way.

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.

Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff that's really hard and you manage to get through to people, then you're doing the right thing. They might have just fooled me by telling me that, but it worked. I think that's my philosophy.

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.

Keep trying. It's only from the valley that the mountain seems high.

Some of my greatest pleasures have come from finding ways to overcome obstacles.

Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

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

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

Life wasn't easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily, everything would have come easily, and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.