Steven Strogatz Quotes

I never fight, except against difficulties.

You know, it's just a matter of working through the pitfalls sometimes and working through the challenges that lie ahead.

All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and must be both enterprised and overcome with answerable courages.

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

Nothing in my life has really ever been easy. I've always been someone who did it uphill.

Everyone can relate to struggle.

Everyone has to face obstacles. Everybody has to face hurdles. It's what you do with those that determines how successful you're going to be.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.

No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Sometimes if you want to achieve something great, there will be curveballs. You just have to dodge them every once in a while.

Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living.

I've been through a lot of struggles.

Everyone's got a boulder in their life of one sort or another that they need to overcome. For most people, it's not a literal one, but there are certainly metaphorical ones.

Sometimes the hurdles aren't really hurdles at all. They're welcome challenges, tests.

Life is not always going to be roses and rainbows. You are going to have uncomfortable moments. It's what we do with those moments that is going to count and determine our destiny.

My life has always been full of challenges.

Life is a never-ending stream of problems that must be confronted, surmounted, and/or solved.