Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes

Obstacles are found everywhere, and in overcoming them we nourish ourselves.

Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.

Everything that happens helps you grow, even if its hard to see right now.

I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.

Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.

It's not what you accomplish in life that matters; it's what you overcome.

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

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

Every challenge takes you a little deeper and awakens you again and again. Without the challenges, you probably would go to back to sleep. The challenges keep you awake.

Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time? One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult! It’s what enables us to grow. Remember, earth is not heaven!

The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character. Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything.

You're always going to face criticism, you're always going to face challenges, but those things are there to make you stronger and more committed.

By facing our challenges and overcoming them, we grow stronger, wiser, and more compassionate.

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken

From adversity we can learn the value of patience.

Life is not so much what you accomplish as what you overcome.

Life is an endless, truly endless struggle. There's no time when we're going to arrive at a plateau where the whole thing gets sorted. It's a struggle in the way every plant has to find it's own way to stand up straight. A lot of the time it's a failure. And yet it's not a failure if some enlightenment comes from it.

It is not on the pinnacle of success and ease where men and women grow most. It is often down in the valley of heartache and disappointment and reverses where men and women grow.

You have to go down before you can come out — that’s how these things always work.

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.

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

None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.

Life is a challenge. Realize that and work, every day, to rise up and meet it.

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!