facing obstacles Quotes

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.

It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

If we run a hundred miles an hour to the other end of the continent in order to get away from the obstacle, we find the very same problem waiting for us when we arrive. It just keeps returning with new names, forms, manifestations until we learn whatever it has to teach us about where we are separating ourselves from reality, how we are pulling back instead of opening up, closing down instead of allowing ourselves to experience fully whatever we encounter, without hesitating or retreating into ourselves.

Life's tough," Mia said with a shrug. "You play the cards you're dealt or you fold.

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.

If I must have an ill, may it be real, That I may meet it eye to eye and fight, And wheresoever it may strength reveal Get after it with all my main and might. The woe that but impends and wears the mind With worry deep and most vexatious care, Is harder fighting than the realler kind, For when you come to strike—it isn't there!

Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.

There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.

A little bit of pain is good for you. I feel alive. Everybody needs struggle. Once you overcome an obstacle, you springboard into the future. Life is interesting and short and it's not supposed to be easy, and if it is, you're probably just in denial and you're existing here like a zombie.

Meet the difficult while it is easy.

There are people that don't need to run towards adversity. They grew up in circumstances where it's forced upon them. Other people lead, pushier lives. So there are all kinds of forms of adversity in the world.

When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.

There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with them with courage and decision. One must beware of uncertainty, weakness or conflicting emotions - they lead to defeat

Life is going to present you with tons of problems, it's what you do about them that matters.

If I had faced it then, I wouldn't be facing it now, but sooner or later you have to choose between running and facing the thing you thought you could not face.

When the enemy attacks you, this means that you are on the right road.

I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance. Never settle for the path of least resistance. Livin' might mean takin' chances but they're worth takin'. Lovin might be a mistake but it's worth makin'.

The question is not whether or not you will face trials. The question is, how will you respond when you do?

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.

My past is my shadow, it follows me everywhere I go. Well, all those things come from when I had no other choice. They put my back against the wall. I do what I gotta do.