confronting obstacles Quotes

When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery.

Life is a challenge, we must take it.

We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.

Choose a challenge instead of competence

Necessity makes heroes of us all.

Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.

Sometimes you have to shake the tree in order to make things happen. And if that has a political cost, I will take it, as long as it saves lives.

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present -henceforth?- the subject to which you are condemned.

You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.

The act of resisting something is the act of granting it life... the more you resist, the more you make it real - whatever it is you are resisting.

The spiritual warrior hides from nothing. We jump into the fire, we dive into the ocean. We become the sea.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.

Sooner or later comes a crisis in our affairs, and how we meet it determines our future happiness and success. Since the beginning of time, every form of life has been called upon to meet such crisis.

When you're up against a trouble, meet it squarely, face to face. Lift your chin and set your shoulders, plant your feet and take a brace. When it's vain to try to dodge it, do the best that you can do. You may fail, but you may conquer. See it through!

The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.

I am someone who will rise to an occasion like that. Other occasions can defeat me.

The proper response to difficulty is not to retreat. It is to prevail.

The activity you're most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity

Do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance?