Challenging Circumstances Quotes

When meeting difficult situations, one should dash forward bravely and with joy.

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem!

Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.

Mama raised a hellraiser why cry, That's just life in the ghetto, do or die.

Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception.

Believe in miracles. And live in a way that might necessitate one.

Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that.

In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.

The more impossible the situation, the greater God accomplishes His work.

I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out tomorrow.

I've learned the lesson that when you're in the middle of something that seems overwhelming, or you're in a bad situation and it seems like it's the end of the world or whatever, then you learn that it's not.

These times of woe afford no time to woo.

Historyis nothing other than a collection of the lives of people, some of them great, some of them ordinarynothing other than a collection of what people have done in challenging circumstances and how they have risen to those circumstances.

They weren’t idiots, but I attracted trouble that just begged me to beat it into submission.

I'm always willing to work that little bit harder to achieve what I need to achieve because I feel like it's a blessing for me to be here. I was never supposed to be here. I'm the black council estate kid, single parent, from West London, with friends that are in jail, friends that have committed heinous crimes, friends that are doing nothing. I'm not supposed to be here, therefore I have nothing to lose. I'm always going to work harder than everyone else because if it doesn't work, "So what?".

We prove God by showing active faith, which puts to flight all adverse appearances

I'm moderating one of the presidential primary debates right after I've had a baby. I'm sitting in a dirty closet on the floor behind the auditorium where this debate is taking place between Obama, Hillary Clinton, and I'm pumping breast milk... twenty minutes before I'm going on.

It's not a pretty picture, but there are reasons for hope.

Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.

I grew up in Baltimore, which is, you know, a city of extremes certainly, but my parents were very conservative. But they made me feel safe, and even though they were mortified at what I was doing, they encouraged it. I think because they thought, what else could I do?

The days are stacked against what we think we are.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

There will always be days when we have to race to catch up to events we did not foresee, not because somebody is asleep at the switch, but because what’s going on is so complicated.

When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder.